Clear the way, the prime minister is coming and he can’t be expected to wait in traffic

A reader has just sent me the following email and the photograph shown here.

At around 8:50 this morning, I was stopped at the roundabout which links the Naxxar bypass to Iklin.

There was clearly lots of traffic coming down the bypass because of the closure of the coast road.

The Transport Malta official who was directing traffic knocked on my window to announce that he had stopped me and all the cars behind me because the prime minister was on his way and he might be told off otherwise for not stopping the traffic to ensure his smooth journey through.

My reply was “X’jimpurtani! Jista jgawdi it-traffic li holoq il-ministru tieghu bhal ma qed naghmlu ahna”. I got out my phone and started filming in anticipation of the PM’s drive-by.

The official, who obviously saw me holding up my phone to the windscreen, must have thought better and let some cars from my lane go through at the first available opportunity.

As I passed through, Joseph’s family saloon, for which he and Michelle are receiving seven thousand euros a year from the taxpayer, was not in view in the long line of cars on the Naxxar by-pass.

This made me even more curious. Are the PM’s movements in traffic announced over some communication device to Transport Malta officials, so that they can clear the way for him?