And the Labour Party’s favourite horses are…Miriam Dalli and Charlon Gouder
The Labour Party’s current MEPs are: John Attard Montalto (no sight or sound of him), Joseph Cuschieri, Marlene Mizzi and Claudette Abela Baldaccino – the last two replaced Edward Scicluna and Louis Grech when they won seats in the Maltese parliament last year.
The Nationalist Party’s current MEPs are: David Casa and Roberta Metsola, who replaced Simon Busuttil when he became deputy leader of the PN last year.
Tonight, Xarabank is about the European Parliament elections. It features a debate between two PN candidates and two Labour candidates. The parties get to choose who they send.
The obvious thing to do would be to send the incumbents, to avoid creating bad blood among the candidates by selecting the party’s preferences, which not only gives them unfair exposure but also sends the message to viewers and others that these are the party’s preferred candidates.
So the Nationalist Party is sending its incumbents, as there are two: David Casa and Roberta Metsola.
The Labour Party has four incumbents, but Abela Baldacchino and Attard Montaldo are not standing for re-election, so common sense would tell you that this solves the problem of who to send: the remaining two incumbents, Marlene Mizzi and Joseph Cuschieri.
Instead, Labour is sending Miriam Dalli and Charlon Gouder, the message being: these are the party’s selected favourites, so vote for them because they are the ones we want you to vote for and because Karmenu Vella would rather like to have his son, daughter-in-law and their baby with him in Brussels.
Alfred Sant is going to be elected anyway – he’s top of the polls with Labour voters – so no need to send him to the show, which would only serve to highlight the anomaly of his presenting himself as an MEP anyway. He might also say something awkward and embarrassing and spoil the positive energy.
So it looks like Malta is going to send a Super One contingent to the Socialist Group in the European Parliament: Miriam Dalli and Charlon Gouder, led by Alfred Sant. You just have to laugh. It’s the only way to keep your sanity.
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I wonder what Cuschieri thinks about this. First he said he wouldn’t stand because the party had chosen its favourites, then he changed his mind and re-entered the race.
Or maybe he knew along that he won’t be elected and was promised some iced bun not to rock the boat until election day.
You may be correct, Banana Republic – perhaps that’s the real reason behind Cuschieri’s vow to donate half his wage for good causes should he get elected.
From this to fashion shows at Villa Francia and Girgenti Palace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcn4qPZX0eU
For Christ’s sake we have a Super One journalist as a Prime Minister – what did you expect really?
Why don’t they send their trump card, Franco Debono?
Trump card?
Wouldn’t you think that ‘a trumped-up discard’ is more appropriate?
Charlon Gouder was absolutely disgusting on Net yesterday. He has this way of swivelling around in his chair to face the person next to him. Arms open, knuckles against armrests.
Pastaz u minghalih se jbezza’.
He also has to resort to consistent interruption and lies, lies, lies. BWSC he kept repeating, calling it the gretest scandal in the history of this republic.
When truth is PAC and auditor general had cleared the full tender. Yes, tender, remember those?
Then there’s the minor technical detail that BWSC were the only ones who could offer a technology where HFO and LNG can be run off the same equipment. Filtering being a first of its kind. Scandal they said.
As for the cancer factory, Metsola should have reminded everyone Labour, EXTENDED the use of HFO when it had promised to revert to gasoil immediately, that’s diesel. Which they obviously didn’t.
I don’t blame Metsola though, the individual is as fake as a Chinese institute for democracy. Perhaps next time she could ask him whether he ever found his wallet.
The PN speakers are just dull. They have to knock their opponents out by making them remember of their past.
The BWSC is NOT a cancerous factory, but what Labour is doing with the gas ship is outrageous and waiting for a big tragedy to happen.
THAT is what the people of Marsaxlokk, Birzebbugia and whereabouts want to know and NOT niceties of the PN speakers.
They have to go down the people’s way of thinking, otherwise they won’t be seeing government for another nine years.
Can we please talk about the terrible hairstyles that the shemales are sporting in the photos above? I do not care which era it was, it’s just a big fat NO.
What is it with the pig tails? Dalli is a politician not Pippi Longstocking
Meanwhile it’s 298 days to the day Joseph Muscat resigns if the power station won’t be ready.
And I cannot see it being built in time unless going to be the floating Sargas one (With the compliments of John Dalli) or an inflatable power station from China.
http://gzmagical.en.made-in-china.com/
That’s a brilliant idea, save on storage facilities.
David Casa is absolutely brilliant.
Litteralment gabha zibel lil Miriam Dalli.
I thought it was not his best performance. He usually can do better. But still, he rubbished her. And I loved it when he turned on Marlene Mizzi “Ara inti m’intix tal-qalba.”
Here’s another conspiracy theory to consider.
To do this we have to accept Muscat’s and Engerer’s hypothesis that a Magistrate can been politically manipulated only this time it’s not the PN but the MLP that’s pulling the strings.
Let’s assume that Joseph Muscat wanted Miriam Dalli and Charlon Gouder in the first place so he secures an appeal from the Attorney General last summer as insurance should things not play out the way he wanted them to.
One month from elections Cyrus Engerer starts getting too close for comfort and just might upset the applecart so someone whispers in the Magistrate’s ear that the Attorney General’s appeal should be seriously considered.
Cyrus Engerer is sentenced to two years suspended for two years blowing his chances.
Joseph hugs Cyrus and blames the PN for having manipulated it all.
This is a wonderful scenario where the Machiavellian Muscat gets his way. Cyrus Engerer is eliminated and the PN are blamed for the bad deed.
Naturally this is pure fiction and events probably turned out the way they should have with no dirty business coming from either Party.
This all goes to show that there are always two sides to a coin and in a democracy it is dangerous to plant the seeds of doubt in the institutions.
With a Super One hack as PM and the prospective MEPS being from the same stable, Super One has/is taken/taking over the country
“Alfred Sant is going to be elected anyway – he’s top of the polls with Labour voters – so no need to send him to the show.”
That is not the reason why Alfred Sant was not presented as Labour’s favourite horse. It was his decision. Just imagine the humiliation for the former Prime Minister upon being interviewed by Peppi (notwithstanding the fact that Peppi could not make it today).
I cannot imagine someone like Charlon Gouder representing me in the European Parliament. The last time I saw him face Roberta Metsola on Net TV, all he could do was repeat ‘fabbrika tal-cancer’ like a parrot.
What made it worse was his clear sense of pride in repeating it. If this is as far as he is going to take Malta, may the winds that shipwrecked Paul on this rock blow to push the Island of Malta forward, IL-QUDDIEM.
So Alfred Sant, Miriam Dalli Vella, Charlon Gouder, And Marlene Mizzi, Joseph Cuschieri scuttled a week before the election.
We want truly intelligent people representing Malta, u mhux nies hsiebhom iktar fil-hairstyle u kif se jidhru fuq il-cameras u fl-ahhar mill-ahhar jispiccaw jaghtu performance verament fjakka.
L-intelligenza tmur hafna oltre minn hekk.
Il-problema hi li dawn it-tip ta’ nies ma jirrealizzawx kemm jidhru ‘fake’ ma min ifittex is-serjeta’ u l-genwinita’ fin-nies.
Joseph Cuschieri feels so sure that he will not be elected that he promised to donate half of what he gets from Brussels, IF elected.
Am I the only one here to note that Alfred Sant, Miriam Dalli and Charlon Gouder are from the same stable as Jason Micallef? Isn’t this the old click from the time when Alfred Sant set up the Super One and had Jason Micallef as party secretary general?
Is this the comeback of Jason Micallef and a sign of Alfred Sant’s hold on the “new Labour”?