Ever since Adrian Delia became Nationalist Party leader, supported by the Labour Party machinery, Labour always promoted the narrative that Adrian Delia is the better alternative as Opposition Leader to Simon Busuttil and his supporters. This was because Adrian Delia was more tolerant of corruption and some dubious figures in PN blamed PN’s subsequent defeat at the polls for its focus on the fight against corruption and the rule of law. Adrian Delia even acted on his beliefs by being involved in bribery and corrupt schemes himself.
By hindsight, the murder of a journalist, proved Simon Busuttil right: that the fight for the rule of law is worth fighting for because impunity had escalated to the level of murder. Adrian Delia, who had initially taken an antagonistic stance against Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who was murdered, was eventually swept out of his office, along with other corrupt members of the Labour government, including Joseph Muscat himself. Then Adrian Delia took up the PN’s court case against the government over its deal with Steward Healthcare and rehabilitated his image and political career.
Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party also use the same tropes and gaslighting tactics that Adrian Delia’s faction within PN use: criticism directed at them stems from hatred, but this is deceiving and typical criminal rhetoric. Joseph Muscat is not a victim and he and his friends apart from raking in millions from the public purse with their corrupt schemes, even murdered a journalist. They enjoy an unprecedented level of impunity that has led to our country becoming politically deadlocked with a rent-seeking regime, that ultimately is ruining our environment, depleting the public purse, turning us into an illiberal democracy and literally having the country run by extensive criminal networks. In the end, we have to ask whether five years of a rent-seeking boom were worth a Mafia State along with a Sicilisation of the economy that is making workers and businesses ever more dependent on government handouts.
Adrian Delia’s faction in the PN has today merged with Alex Borg’s the new PN candidate who has adopted Labour’s populist narrative. Alex Borg’s faction complements Labour by being an ineffective Opposition while Alex Borg exploits Labour’s dominant narrative to his own advantage in terms of popularity. Adrian Delia has used the Steward’s case to his own advantage, and the problem goes much deeper than just this corrupt scheme.
Ultimately this is not a matter of “cruelty” and “hatred” but whether the state will operate as a normal functioning state or as a criminal operation and get-rich scheme of Labour’s network. Accepting the fact that Joseph Muscat has to go to prison for his crimes is a very basic perquisite of having a state that runs normally and constitutionally at the service of the public instead for the people who run it. This is a choice between wanting a Sicilian-styled Mafia State (but a bit richer) or a normal functioning Western democracy. It’s much deeper than allowing Joseph Muscat to get away with stealing a little bit of money.
You can watch Joseph Muscat’s statement in the link below
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C20LA11oEqP/?igsh=MTRqNWZyOGd3b2V1Zg%3D%3D
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