UPDATED: This is all rather cosy, isn’t it?
Anglu Farrugia and Marie Louise Coleiro: what an unfortunate juxtaposition given all the rumours about those two during her long, long years as a hunter-down of married men.
Our new president is very cagey about the identity of her 20-year-old daughter’s father. She likes to portray herself as a single mother who chose to have a baby at 36 because her “biological clock was ticking”, as she put it in an interview.
That’s because her baby’s father – Martin Chircop of St Julian’s – was a married man with three children. She had a long affair with him, obviously causing massive trouble in his marriage and destroying the home and stability of his children when she claims to care so much about children’s welfare (maybe she’s repented).
He left his wife and children for her, she had that child, and then she left him – for ANOTHER married man. In this case, she was not successful in persuading him to leave his wife. Maybe he just didn’t want to. The man in question was involved in the leadership of the Labour Party at one stage, and there are various candidates.
And in case you’re wondering how I know about the paternity of her child and her targeting of a married man with three children, and thinking maybe it’s just gossip or a rumour, it is not. I know because one of the children whose home and happiness she destroyed, now grown up, and whose mother’s life she made a misery, wrote to me three years ago when she couldn’t bear to hear any more of Marie Louise Coleiro’s pontificating about the sanctity of marriage and against divorce.
The woman was a serial adulterer and a home-wrecker who deliberately had a child by a married man, and you have to put that behaviour in the context of the time. Some nice saint we have there.
And then you wonder why she staged a full-blown royal wedding rather than a simple investiture yesterday.
That is also why her daughter – now aged 20, and who should have rightfully been prominent at her mother’s side on such an important day – was nowhere to be seen beyond the big wedding mass. On a day that was a cross between the big white wedding she never had but clearly always wanted, and the start of the canonisation process, she did not want large and living evidence of her disgraceful history as a home-wrecker standing at her side for people to ask questions.
Or maybe the daughter herself just wanted no part of that sham charade.
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She still looks like a fat lesbian though no matter how many marriages she wrecked.
Pjazza San Gorg was practically empty.
Usually Labour always manages to bring in the masses, by hook or crook or promises or threats.
The president was waving to an almost empty square.
I was impressed.
So true … it was practically empty!
Also, Times of Malta had the title ‘Was given a hero’s welcome at Qormi’ for a few moments.
Hero’s welcome?! I watched the video / photos uploaded on Times of Malta and all I could see were a lot of bodyguards and ‘bandisti’! Then a few (literally) other people waving at her.
And she also copied Jo by climbing on the car to wave at the few people there.
[Daphne – Hero’s welcome: I know she looks really butch, but come on. Send them a copy of First Aid in English: hero/heroine.]
That is unusual. Usually, she was quite effective in organizing bus loads of idiots for the recording of Xarabank.
My immediate impression as well. Practically empty, and to say that TVM commentators boasted of ‘numerous’ tourists watching proceedings.
The flag-waving crowd consisted mainly of foreign English language students. Don’t ask.
Role model my foot!
I have a feeling she will be the worst President ever – barring the other woman.
By opening ‘people contact’ offices she is going to become the customer care department of the government.
Before everyone jumps on me – if someone goes to the office to meet her it will be to air a grievance – and what will the President’s next action be?
To take note and say a prayer?
No – she will try to rectify the grievance by using her influence on government departments – that is what she used to do and what made her so popular.
Now that she is President the government officers will react pronto – if you want something done go visit Marie Louise Coleiro – President of Malta. “Qisha fairy godmother”.
If you want to be discreet about it got to Nadur, Gozo – she has an office hidden somewhere there – just ask around.
How can she be an apolitical president and also fix people’s problems? I cannot see it – she has already shown that she is unable to rise above the two political parties – and yours too, Arnold Cassola.
Lin-Nazzjonalisti kienu jakkuzawhom li jaghmlu l-favuri imma l-Labour jghinu n-nies ghax qalbhom tajba.
In that case, this woman is wholly unfit for the office of president.
Then again, we get the government and hence the President we deserve.
And as we are so absorbed in the wholesale lowering of standards on everything in Malta, then so be it, la x xitan irid hekk, so to speak.
People conveniently forget also that it was also when Marie Louise Coleiro was secretary-general of the Malta Labour Party that the infamous ‘pom pom girl’ case happened, when the party’s propaganda secretary was found producing pornographic films, in which he starred himself with the Labour Party’s team of cheerleader-dancers, having sex with each other literally in the Labour Party HQ, Il-Macina.
She should have retired from politics there and then.
The more the trashification happens, the more I blame the PN and Gonzi for this mess.
So many mistakes made then, and so much hard-headedness in choosing people in that administration. And many things besides this, you said so in a previous post on those so called model photo shoots . Now, we even have Simon and Co. voting for this person. I would have thought the PN would have some spine but they don’t anymore. You hardly hear a squeak. I despair. Truly.
As the British would say, the PN are letting the government hang themselves.
Just like they let Labour hang itself before the last election? Not a very clever strategy, is it?
The culture of hamallagni led by a prime example.
The powers of persusion.
Our social consceince had/ has no choice.
Shouldn’t have any problem passing any laws now
A rescuer needs a constant supply of victims to function.
AH! At last someone is bothered with the truth!
Marie Louise Colerio Preca’s resignation because of the divorce issue was a mise en scene.
What a hypocrite.
That explains why we were told who her cousin twice removed was married to, and who her fairly new husband is distantly related to, but not who the father of her daughter is.
As usual, kudos to our newspapers, I don’t think: their reporters have been exemplary ventriloquists’ dummies once again.
Most of us knew who the `unknown` father was. Now his ex mistress is married to a distant relation of San Gorg Preca and it looks like the president and her consort might soon be venerated, judging by all those who spoke about her yesterday. It was truly sickening.
” might soon be venerated, judging by all those who spoke about her yesterday. It was truly sickening.”
I always cringe when watching programmes like yesterday’s Xarabank and I have to switch channels at one point.
I have alot of mixed feelings about all this talk about the poor. There will always be poor people who need help but we do have alot of government NGOs as well as private ones to help those in need.
Surely there are not so many cases that require long queues of people waiting outside the minister’s office since five in the morning.
What we are witnessing today is not poverty as we once knew it but social poverty, social cases which mostly result from poor upbringing and unhealthy family backgrounds. This is not the remit of a minister, no matter how benevolent he or she may be. There are professionals for this kind of work.
And please do not mix those who really need help with those others who are always wanting to get something for free at the expense of our taxes.
Why do you even bother watching them, in the first place?
Did they distribute holy water after the swearing in?
Perhaps the spin team is arranging for a source to spring up in Nadur?
Our very own Eva Peron.
http://youtu.be/qMxUaLtvDYU
“We have allowed ourselves to slip
We have completely lost our grip
We have declined to an all-time low
Tarts have become the set to know”
“Things have reached a pretty pass
When someone pretty lower-class
Graceless and vulgar, uninspired
Can be accepted and admired”
Daphne we all have something which we all want to hide.It is very bad to take someone’s husband and father.In my opinion it is a sin which cannot be forgiven.But it is very unchristian to bring to the fore the sin of others.In any case it does not involve you personally.
[Daphne – Christianity has nothing to do with journalism, reporting or the public’s right to know who is head of state. Your view that we should concern ourselves only with what affects us personally is very odd and betrays a dysfunctional civic sense. We should not concern ourselves only with what affects us personally. This is not about adultery or home-wrecking. It is about hypocrisy. The only reason we should care about the details of Mrs Preca’s long career in strewing disaster for others is because she now pretends to be the precise opposite, giving interviews about how she says the rosary in bed with her husband, going to extremes in playing the saint and saviour and giving herself away by ‘protesting too much’. Really good people abide by the maxim that good works should be kept concealed even from the left hand. Boasting about one’s good works reveals that one is doing it for the purpose of self-glorification, besides, it goes without saying, being the height of vulgarity.]
I make it a point not to comment on items of personal histories that do not impinge on a person’s public role, but I find the details given here about the past life of our President disconcerting.
A public person should not live a lie. Of course, there is always an opportunity for a person to show that s/he has had a Damascene experience.
Does Marie Louise Coleiro Preca help people in need or others who want to have everything for free without having to do anything for it, let alone work?
I personally firmly believe the latter.
Her street theatre could be nothing more than a mask hiding behind it a Labour recruiting ground. So say many circumstances and documents.
Certainly, she is no role model. She should not have accepted the position.
Unbeknown to her she reopened a family wound and brought it back to limelight.
Her daughter and her daughter’s half-siblings are now the subject of conversations every time we see the president on television.
What a bad decision.
Becoming the president of Malta does not wipe her slate clean.
Min hu bla dnub jitfa l-ewwel gebla-Gesu’
Kulhadd vergni f’dal-pajjiz, jahasra.
L-Eccellenza Taghha she isn’t.
The journey to Damascus was meant to be a two-way trip – but it was not the same man who made the ‘return’ voyage.
He never said “I am the same person I was before”. Indeed, far from it.
all darba alaq halqek … mela ma ikollokx aktar affarijit xtamel milli tikritika ill haddiehor hares naqa wahda sewwa fil mara
Daphne is not a gynaecologist.
Il-marmalja u l-hamalli li jaghmlu lill-Coleiro Preca l-idolu taghhom qed jaqraw il-blog ta’ Daphne? and as always they stand out in the crowd.
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca: “I WILL REMAIN THE PERSON I ALWAYS WAS”.
Ladies, lock up your husbands.
Her daughter does not want to be known as the president’s, or the minister’s daughter. That’s what she wrote in an open letter to her mother, which was read on the Maltese version of the Jerry Springer Show yesterday.
Now I can understand why.
She is utterly stupid to have remained in the public sphere after being a cum-dump for married men since she was a teenager.
The fact that she has a child has always raised questions about who the father is.
She must have known that this was going to surface somewhere at some point. Jaqq. Xi hmieg.
Shouldn’t the head of state be representative of the Maltese? Well, we can say our new President bloody well is.
Surely if this were true it would have been discussed publicly, a president’s family is usually always grilled in the media.
[Daphne – It is precisely BECAUSE it is true that it is not discussed publicly, except here. Of course it is true. Do you imagine for one moment that I gave you the real name of a real man – they are the Chircops who own that place La Plage at St George’s Bay, next to Andrew’s Bar – when I don’t know for certain that he fathered Marie Louise Coleiro’s daughter? Or that I said one of the victims of her home-wrecking wrote to me, when it isn’t true? The reluctance of so many people to believe ugly truths, and the alacrity with which they then believe appealing lies, never fails to astonish me. Yes, it is true: Marie Louise Coleiro wrecked one home, tried to wreck another, and because her biological clock was ticking, got pregnant by a married man with three children, destroying that home and family – obviously – in the process. This is the president I’m talking about. You don’t invent things like that about the president.]
I didn’t think you were just randomly stating it, but I am shocked that this hasn’t been addressed or discussed elsewhere. If this happened in any other European country or in America I can only imagine the debates that would take place.
[Daphne – I don’t know why you’re shocked. Malta is a place where people always know much more than the newspapers report. The press in Malta is completely dysfunctional – it operates on a separate and distinct plane to reality.
One goes to the newspapers to see what they DIDN’T report about what you know already.
The Erin Tanti business is a case in point. That should have been the starting point for a whole series of media investigations and analysis into teacher-pupil relationships, teacher recruitment and training, what the law says about these situations, an examination of the laws under which Tanti has been charged and matching them up to the known facts, psychological assessments, what parents can do, what parents should do, profiles of Tanti built on his considerable presence in the media (there is evidence for character analysis all over the internet) and interviews with his theatre and school colleagues – but there is nothing. Readers and audiences are so ill served that it is just unbelievable.
But then do they demand any different? No, because they have been reduced to a stupor by a mixture of ignorance, extreme insularity and the culture of stupidity engendered by Joe Azzopardi and Xarabank.]
“Surely if this were true it would have been discussed publicly,”
This is Malta, where people like to pretend that “nasty” things don’t really happen, and then attack the messenger who dares speak up, rather than “attack” the message itself.
This is breaking news for me.
It might all be true. But is this the way we should speak of people, whether the person is the President or not? Can’t someone be sorry for one’s past ? Can’t the person learn from past mistakes ? I believe that if one is aware of one’s faults then one becomes more sensitive towards others and grows in humility. I think we need more foregiveness in this country.
[Daphne – I’m sorry, but your argument does not make sense. This is not a hereditary monarchy, where the state has to put up with whoever is next in line despite their fitness for purpose or not. When you choose your head of state, you should choose well, and somebody not only fit but deserving. What message is the government giving out to the victims of families deliberately targetted by a ruthless and egocentric woman (or man, for that matter)?
When the government appoints a determined homewrecker to the highest office in the land, it is sending out a message. We have a homewrecker as a head of state. As for forgiveness, that is not relevant. Forgiveness belongs to religion. It does not belong in state matters. Consider a convicted murderer. Would you look favourably at his appointment as head of state, on the grounds that he had served his time in prison and repented? Had Marie Louise Coleiro met her man after his marriage had ended already, the situation would have been looked at differently.
But you are looking at a major character flaw in any woman who deliberately targets a man who is still married, with young children, and who then intentionally becomes pregnant by him to force a decision and because her selfish need to have a child before her time runs out at 36 comes before the needs and feelings of the three children whose happiness she wrecked without a second thought. If yesterday’s self-serving performance wasn’t enough to tell you that this woman is an egomaniac, her decision to put her needs first in having that baby should spell it out for you. ‘I want, therefore I shall have, regardless of who gets hurt in the process’.
As to your question about whether we should discuss people like this – the answer is most definitely not if they are private persons or don’t hold public office. But the answer is most certainly yes ifthey hold the highest office in the land. The public has a right to know that the quintessential hypocrite has been made head of state and that her concern for others is nothing more than a projected concern for herself (she helps others so as to bask in their gratitude and admiration). The public has a right to know and the press has a duty to report on these things and discuss them.
You don’t see anyone in France suggesting that the press shouldn’t be examining the varied personal life of the president – and this despite that country’s repressive privacy laws with which he had the nerve to threaten the press. ]
This might have been the promise to stop her from resigning before the election. Make her president.
[Daphne – As if somebody of her self-seeking nature would ever have resigned her seat in parliament. And do what? Make brodu for Edgar? With her political office and the queue at her door, she’d die.]
Your argument is good.It is not right to take someone’s husband and father.It is a very traumatic experience for the family even though the children were grown ups.But although the damage cannot be reversed once it is done,one can repent and start a new life.God forgives our sins,why shouldn’t be.
[Daphne – Forgive me for pointing this out, but exactly what does God and the forgiveness of sins have to do with the appointment of a head of state? The concept of sin is religious. These are matters of state we are discussing. And if we are to take your religious view, then Mrs Preca should put herself forward as a penitent, not as a saint. The fact is, she is neither. She is a self-serving, glory-seeking hypocrite governed purely by self interest.]
But Persil, that’s anther good point. How can the pubic even contemplate forgiving her when she has never even acknowledged any of it?
She didn’t say, I made this ‘mistake’, I apologise to those I’ve hurt, and I ask forgiveness.
It still wouldn’t be acceptable of course, but I can’t understand why some are saying the pubic needs to forgive her when we can’t until she asks for forgiveness.
What is wrong with everybody? People like her do not repent and can never be sorry for the wrongs they did because they actually think that they did the right thing – for themselves.
They think they have a right to other people’s ‘property’. They think they deserve the glory etc. because they go all out to get it.
They don’t care who gets in the way or who they might hurt.
People like her are called NARCISSISTS. People like her are dangerous. What we saw on Friday was a massive, massive, six-hour display of narcissism.
How sad for us that we have someone like her representing our country.
L gheneb qares / sour grapes for you DCG in case u can’t read in maltese
I’d rather have Daphne as President any time. But then she wouldn’t really be representing the country, would she? Only just us , the minority.
@ Sylvia – first of all Daphne knows how to read and write in Maltese – secondly – why sour grapes? Do you think Daphne wanted to become President ?
I was shocked……Do not get me wrong anyone please…I am not holier than thou…far from it…but has not a person in that position be one of respect…total respect without any skeletons falling out of her closet? I mean it is ok for instance, me, a plain face, opening my closet and bones falling out from everywhere….but the president?