Megalomania and delusions of grandeur
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January 8, 2012 at 12:51am
This is the way Franco’s mind works.
A backbencher loses confidence in the prime minister.
Therefore the prime minister, and not the backbencher, should resign.
Kieku kien mara, kienu jibghatu ghat-tabib, jaghtuh injection qawwi, u jiehduh rest-home ghal ftit gimghat sa kemm jigi f’tieghu.
But men are allowed to run amok, it seems, without anyone chasing after them with syringes of kalmanti. So what’s new.
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Have you seen the video here?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120107/local/debono-the-pm-s-decisions-were-a-reaction-to-my-statements.401362
So the Prime Minister is disrepecting an MP elected by the people, is he?
And what is Franco Debono doing if not disrespecting an elected representative of the people who happens to be prime minister, and disrespecting the people who elected a government for a full term?
Is the whole press conference available online ?
He’s becoming another Emmy Bezzina.
I had the same thought.
He hasn’t yet started putting letters after his name.
So far, I don’t see any reason for anyone to resign.
People have been elected. They should serve the full term. There will be another election one day.
Members of parliament losing confidence in the prime minister or leaving or switching parties happens all the time. No reason for a drama.
Daphne, two years or so ago I wrote you that it was a mistake for the PM and his wife to go the Franco Debono’s house late in the evening to appease him.
The Prime Minister should never go to any one’s home to discuss national issues. It is the MP who should go to visit the PM.
Dr. Gonzi is an astute politician and I wonder why he didn’t put Franco in his place early on in the legislature.
The problem with Dr. Gonzi is that he has bended over backwards too many times to make Franco Debono happy. Again a big mistake.
Immediately, the PN must exert a tonne of pressure to have Franco resign from Parliament.
I like the petition that is being organized in Franco’s district and hope it will be successful. The petition can be a compelling moral case for him to resign and a good boost for the PN.
One final thought: Dr. Muscat has again disappointed me as he is not looking at the big picture. Here is a golden opportunity for Dr. Muscat to put the interest of the nation first.
If I were him I would not write a letter to the Speaker asking to convene parliament on Monday. Instead I would hold a press conference and tell the people that Franco should resign immediately from Parliament as he is bringing instability to our nation.
This way Joseph Muscat will be perceived as a statesman showing the people that he is putting the nation first, above his personal ambitions.
I wonder what Franco Debono’s mother’s feelings are on this matter.
[Daphne – I can tell you with accuracy: that her son is right, that everything is being mean and nasty and unfair to him, and that she is going to stand by him to the last. Where his father is in this equation I just don’t know, but I think he’s been sidelined completely by Mrs Debono’s husband-substitute.]
Brrr.
I’ll tell you where his father is in the equation.
Mr. Debono is the lowest form of existence in the household. The poor man ranks below the pet tortoise in the pecking order at home.
This is the root cause of the political crisis gripping the country at the moment.
That tortoise has a lot to answer for.
And as for that Form II C report – if somebody had the gall and presumption to earn a report like that in the school I was at, we’d have beaten the living shit out of him.
That also would have nipped this crisis in the bud. 100% in Religion. I ask you.
“Where his father is in this equation I just don’t know” – Ssssssh! Franco Debono probably sees his mother on a par with the Virgin Mary.
‘Right on queue, Bugeja asked Gonzi whether he was ready to compromise by resigning with Franco Debono.’
‘right on queue’?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Prime-Minister-ready-to-resign-if-this-would-save-the-country-201217
Franco Debono will soon be giving Joseph Muscat the ultimate prize in politics – Castile.
There will be more prizes to be won. Just think how Sargas are keeping their fingers crossed. With Joseph Muscat as prime minister, they will be nearer to selling their power station.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652
It was convenient for this upright MP Franco Debono to react the way he did after the ministries were split, saying that the prime minister showed disrespect towards the ‘people’ by voting against divorce.
I have come to the conclusion that if Franco was made minister, it would have been OK for him to work under an undemocratic Prime Minister.
The upright criminal lawyer conveniently said that he was always against the €500 ministerial raise but he actually voted in favour of it in parliament.
Can anyone imagine a prime minister heading for a financial crisis with thirty-three Franco Debonos on board?
Franco, you showed us that you are unable to lead, and especially unable to follow, so the only option left for you is to get out of the way. Go now.
This Ratszinger pope alias Ben GT XVI should resign now; today. How dare he not make our Venerable Frankuni the Good – I was going to say the God for a minute – a Cardinal.
Shame on him
He has just appointed a Matese cardinql, so the pope should not resign.
You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to extract ample proof, from Debono’s recent comments and from his press conference yesterday, that he is simply unstable and abnormally offended for not having been promoted.
A list of these childish outbursts and displays of emotion should be made to show everyone how right our PM is and how right he has been all along.
The PM must have realised this a long time ago but his biggest mistake was in not having accepted Debono’s resignation, when and if this was in fact tendered. You mustn’t be too good when in authority.
[Daphne – Debono did not tender his resignation from parliament, but from the Nationalist Party. He can resign from the party and remain in parliament, though not for long, because an election would have to be called.]
An experienced criminal lawyer should know that the more one talks, the more he compromises himself. Having stated that he would never have accepted the post, if offered the ministerial job, he should never have showed his anger when Dr. Chris Said asked for his aid.
If he really wants what is good for the nation, he should give his input and not blurt out that he would never help when someone else was trying to work on his ideas.
Franco, you are revealing your hidden agenda. Just resign.
Hey wake up and be proud you are Maltese and that at last Maltese politics found a man with BALLS, been a long time since we had one.
Balls without brains. What use is that?
The PM should have employed some lateral thinking and appointed Franco Debono “Ministru ghas-Sawt”.
Yep – yesterday. Add a severe case of paranoia to your diagnosis of narcissism, Daphne. He’s as crazy as a box of monkeys.
But, on what basis did he lose confidence in the PM….on the fact that the PM was being highly undemocratic especially in the divorce bill……which academically are called oligarchic elite. therefore he wants the PM to resign not because he lost confidence in him, but really and truly because the PM wasn’t serving his due role and wasn’t preserving the system on which our political mechanism works. I guess this is the bottom up approach at its best where the ones in the bottom, being aware that they are at the bottom, voice their concerns directly to those which are in the upper area.
I wonder if Franco Debono actually wrote letters to Father Christmas demanding his resignation after not getting the presents he wanted.
Wrote? Franco Debono probably still believes in Father Christmas, seeing that he’s still parading his Form II school report.
[Daphne – In homes like Franco Debono’s in the 1970s and 1980s, there was no tradition of Father Christmas filling stockings or bringing presents.]
He’s the Grinch, remember?
Those mid-term school reports – really pathetic.
When you watch three or more soccer games where your favourite team is playing and the games are lost owing to an auto-goal by the same player, then only one thing comes to your mind:- BRIBERY. Remember by a half-baked politician.
Franco needs to go on a long holiday to de-stress and view things from a different perspective.
He is uselessly destabilizing the government during an economic crisis, forcing the prime minister’s hands and distracting the PM’s attention from more important tasks.
Had he stepped backwards and realigned himself with the party, last Friday, he could have tried to gain some credit not only for achieving the democratic goal of splitting the justice and internal affairs ministry, but also for the removal of the parliamentary honoraria that despite its justified implementation, was poorly timed and executed.
He could have positioned himself as a successor to the PM, and reached his goal to equal or get as close as possible Joseph Muscat’s position, his rival in life. He could have been turned into a PN asset, not its nemesis.
Le, ta’, Daphne. I beg to differ. Kieku kien mara, kienu jghidulu “Jaqawn ….?”
Hallina Daph, trid?
It’s got nothing to do with gender, this is a purely psychological problem the PN has to deal with here.
Let’s face it: mummy’s boy/Jesuit-educated/lawyer – it was always going to be odds-on that something like this would happen and sure enough, it did.
This top-heavy lawyer representation in parliament has resulted in a government distant from what Joe Citizen is feeling.
We need more doctors, nurses, accountants, shopkeepers, caterers, housewives, farmers, fishermen, soldiers, architects and entrepreneurs in parliament.
Not a place which fits people from the engineering field it seems, Chris.
I’m joking.
I like people who had hands-on experience in business, especially if they started their own business from scratch, or worked in a big organization.
Gonzi was in a big private enterprise, Austin ran a political party, Louis Galea , Eddie, I have to say I used to like Dalli he is a self made person, Lino Spiteri, Arrigo and Karmenu Vella.
People like Franco tend to give too much importance to their work; only yesterday on Bla Agenda Franco was telling a flabbergasted Norman Hamilton (who runs his business)that his changes were even more important than Malta’s economy and the employment situation.
What you state to be Franco Debono’s reasoning is in fact shared by many former local and foreign leaders. The latest example is italy where the then Prime Minister offered his resignation when he no longer had the support of the majority of MP’s. If I recall correctly a similar situation happened in the UK at th end of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership.
[Daphne – Oh hello, David the humourless pedant. Getting it wrong as usual.]