Comments on: Journalists were made to wait for two hours while Muscat and Mallia wrangled about resignation https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2842311 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:40:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2842311 In reply to C Falzon.

So it turns out I am proven wrong, and very surprised as I was sure this could never happen. I still cannot understand how it happened but it most evidently did.

]]> By: think again https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2841266 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:49:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2841266 In reply to marks.

That position has been promised to someone else already.

]]> By: esopu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2841207 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:21:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2841207 Louis Grech

]]> By: CIS https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840937 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:59:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840937 Tell Josanne Cassar how the Prime Minister treats journalists as she only knows how Simon Busuttil treats them.

]]> By: marks https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840775 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:05:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840775 As Dr Frank Psaila said on NET yesterday: How will the PM vote in the motion of no confidence in Manwel Mallia brought up in Parliament by the PN?

[Daphne – He’s going to make sure that Manuel Mallia goes before that, even if he has to offer him the position from which Louis Galea will soon retire.]

]]> By: wolfenstein https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840714 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:44:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840714 So Ray Zammit not fit for purpose as Police Commissioner but he is fine as assistant commissioner.

]]> By: frank https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840679 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:30:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840679 dear daf I would like to find out,if the driver of dr.mallia is going to be dealt with.why he was carrying a gun,as far as I know,these drivers are not allowed to be armed,even though he”s a policeman.tks frank

]]> By: Alfred Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840675 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:29:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840675 Manwel Mallia is to Joseph Muscat what Lorry Sant was to Mintoff.

]]> By: Thackeray https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840674 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:28:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840674 That Mallia refuses to go should not come as a surprise.

In one respect it is a good thing, as now it provides the Opposition with a heaven sent opportunity to recover some lost ground and lost votes faster than looked possible even six months ago.

They should press their attack with all their strength.

If Mallia defies the Prime Minister’s -the PRIME MINISTER’s – demand that he resign, then Muscat’s political credibility is finished.

The Opposition should adopt a policy of respect for the office but not the man in both cases and pursue a policy of non-cooperation politically until the situation is resolved.

Meanwhile they should press ahead with the no confidence motion in parliament against Mallia. They will lose this as the Labour parliamentary group will vote on party lines.

They should immediately follow this with a no-confidence motion in this government on the basis of a total failure of leadership. They will lose this too but the pressure will eventually force a resolution.

Here then is the danger: there must be a resignation but will the government force Mallia’s resignation, or Muscat’s?

This farce could actually end with the replacement of Muscat by Mallia as Prime Minister. And then we will be faced with open dictatorship by the criminal class.

We live in interesting, but dangerous times.

Busuttil, Fenech Adami and De Marco must play their cards carefully.

]]> By: A. Cremona https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/journalists-were-made-to-wait-for-two-hours-while-muscat-and-mallia-wrangled-about-resignation/#comment-2840627 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:13:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56270#comment-2840627 Muscat is as guilty as Mallia in the Sheehan cover-up and Mallia knows.

That is Mallia’s blackmailing power.

Way to go, prime minister.

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