Parliamentary secretary calls (gay, male) deputy charge nurse “sinjorina” in hospital row

Sources at the state general hospital’s A&E Department inform me that this morning, the Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government, Stefan Buontempo (in photographs shown here) turned up there accompanying his brother.

The Parliamentary Secretary appeared to believe that his brother should not have to wait before and after triage like everybody else, and it soon became clear that he had accompanied him for just this reason.

My source says: “Buontempo made a fool out of himself and ended up arguing with three members of staff. At one point he also called a gay male deputy charge nurse “sinjorina”. Then he challenged another nurse to say which political party she votes for, and this in front of everybody. When another nurse came to her aid, he began arguing with her too, but she told him politely and firmly to sit down with his brother in the waiting-room and to wait their turn like everyone else.”

The arrogance is now par for the course. But why would the effeminate Stefan Buontempo (married, with children) call another man “sinjorina”?

Perhaps he feels he has to prove his macho chauvinism as part of the most feminist and liberal government in the history of Malta.