I’ve recieved a lot of criticism on my article about David Casa and this is a srot of reply to the criticism. Of course, I’m grateful to him for fighting for journalistic freedoms and for keeping up his fight for rule of law despite the constant attacks he recieved and even a conspiracy against him to depose him from his seat in the European Parliament. For many he is a hero, and no one can take his history and legacy fighting against organised crime in Maltese politics away from him.
In politics, one has to make choices and compromises, and this is how one focuses on specific goals. David Casa chose to fight for the rule of law, a cause desperately fought for in our country. However, by now, the choice to campaign against abortion is no longer a matter of political survival. David Casa could have opted to remain silent, abstain, and hide in shame for political convenience. Instead, he tried to rationalise his position, most probably as a political campaign tactic to fight for conservative PN voters against competing PN contestants.
If politicians in the PN are so blatantly opportunistic when it comes to women’s issues they should try out a simple exercise. They should map the demographic change of young voters correlated with the increasing number of people who are in favour of decriminalising abortion. Then they should calculate the amount of time left they have left posturing against women’s issues until they have to switch to an entirely new position. That should give them an idea that their time is running out.
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