The Establishment works for Adrian Delia

Adrian Delia has just been on the Nationalist Party’s radio station, running down the party’s “Establishment” and saying that he has met people who have not been given the vote despite being party members for life.

His accusations, if they are true (and you can never take for granted that anything this man says is true), should be laid at his man Jean-Pierre Debono’s door.

Debono is the Nationalist Party’s assistant secretary-general. For nine years fully part of the so-called party Establishment – he is the longest serving official in the party – Debono was busy stuffing local party committees and the General Council with ‘his’ people so as to keep getting elected to the Nationalist Party’s Executive Committee, which he regularly did.

He did this instead of his proper work, the work he was paid more than a quarter of a million euros in party donations over the course of nine years to do: keeping local party committees up to date in their work, keeping the party members’ list up to date – especially after the latest changes to the party statute which made them electors for the party leadership, and keeping the General Council membership list up to date.

He did none of this. Instead, he pursued his own objectives, which included running his own and his wife Kristy’s personal electoral campaigns from his office at the PN headquarters.

You look at this shady person motivated by personal greed and cronyism, and you say: no wonder he’s mounted Delia and ridden him into town.

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