Breaking news: why the Law Commissioner has fallen out with the Justice Minister, and why he wants to go back to the Nationalist Party

Justice Minister Owen Bonnici contested the general election on the third district, which is made up of Fgura, Marsascala and Zejtun – hence the Law Commissioner’s remark to Bonnici, on Facebook, that “Zwieten” are complaining and are not happy at all with the current state of affairs.

But now I can reveal that in the forthcoming general election, Bonnici will stand on the fifth district: Birzebbuga, Marsaxlokk, Zurrieq, Hal Safi, Mqabba, Hal Kirkop and Qrendi. The Labour Party has lost district heavy-weights Karmenu Vella and Marlene Farrugia and needs somebody to pull in the votes. Bonnici has begun meeting people there already.

The fifth district is what Franco Debono considers to be his personal fiefdom. The Nationalist Party (very stupidly) prevented Hermann Schiavone from standing for election on that district in 2013 because Debono went completely ballistic when he began canvassing for votes a couple of years earlier. Schiavone was then asked to pull out of the race to avoid further trouble with a crazed Debono, and obligingly did so. But in the end, as we all know, Debono did not contest the 2013 general election because he voted in parliament to bring down the government and then supported the Labour Party and voted for it in that election.

Hermann Schiavone is now standing on the fifth district for the Nationalist Party, and despite his ongoing allegiance to Labour and to Muscat’s government, Debono – in his role of Law Commissioner and consultant to the Prime Minister – has taken to the internet repeatedly and with increased frequency to launch verbal assaults on Schiavone.

Debono’s sleeper-plan was to contest the general election for the Labour Party on the fifth district, and this is the real reason why he has suddenly started insulting and criticising his government boss, the Justice Minister, on Facebook and the news portals’ comments-boards. He is doing to him what he did to Hermann Schiavone għax daħallu fl-għalqa.

This also accounts for his increasingly heightened verbal assaults on Hermann Schiavone: he actually thinks he can be a Nationalist Party candidate again now that Owen Bonnici (his boss) is blocking his way on the fifth district.

Labour politician and Law Commissioner Franco Debono, who hoped to contest for the Labour Party on the fifth district, which he views as his personal fiefdom.

Labour politician and Justice Minister Owen Bonnici, who will now be standing on the fifth district instead of the third.

Nationalist Party candidate Hermann Schiavone, who is standing on the fifth district after having been prevented from doing so in the 2013 because of Franco Debono’s extreme threats and hysteria.