There’s no place in politics for Toni Abela, either

From my column in The Malta Independent today:

Toni Abela, deputy leader of the Labour Party, had the brass neck to say to the media yesterday that there is no place for Giovanna Debono, the former Gozo Minister, in politics, on the basis of the current allegations against her. I happen to agree, because fiefdom-building is a recipe for trouble and is fundamentally undemocratic. It defeats the essential purpose of electoral democracy if we use the system to elect our personal representatives to do us personal favours. But that is the way it is used in Malta and in Gozo, more so.

But it is intolerable that somebody like Toni Abela would be the one to pass this judgement about a fellow politician. There is no place for him in politics either. As far as I can recall, Mrs Debono was never recorded discussing how she helped conceal from the public and the police the fact that somebody had been found carving up a white brick in the kitchen at the Hal Safi Labour Party Club.

Read the full column in The Malta Independent.