Criminal lawyers shouldn’t be in politics, let alone party leaders. The Nationalist Party already has a serious problem with their spokesperson for internal affairs being a criminal lawyer with a million conflicts of interest. Joe Giglio was even Robert Abela’s best man at his wedding. Now, Franco Debono wants to be the PN party leader, yet he can’t even handle questions from a journalist.
After making his announcement, Christoph Schwaiger asked Franco Debono what he would do about corruption if he were the party leader and prime minister. He quickly replied that this attitude was preventing the PN from winning the elections and then proceeded to mock the journalist with a derisive comment. So, basically Franco Debono is telling us that the rule of law and corruption aren’t ongoing issues at all and he isn’t even willing to discuss them because apparently, according to his implications, the Maltese are inherently corrupt.
I can’t understand his logic in another manner, really. Franco Debono wants to be another Labour Party, hence a criminal organisation, but under a different party’s name. His delusions betray him though because his rhetoric is exactly the same as of Labour’s: let the institutions work when the institutions are compromised and blatantly corrupt. His attitude to journalists is also the same: hostile and toxic. What’s the difference than from a Labour politician, really?
It’s more of the same, but with a more charismatic and funny character, yet, politics isn’t meant to be funny but a very serious calling. Franco Debono’s vanity and self-interested opportunism can match Robert Abela’s, so he may as well join the Labour Party right away.
Website Editor
Historian and Publisher
Leave a Reply