Jealousy.
I’m not sympathetic to his cause, and I have personal issues with him dating to my time as a delegate for having diverted library funds to ONE. Truth be told, however, Labour’s top-brass always turned to him to run their administrative disaster because he was at least an adult. And he was always like that. Since College I remember him enforcing administrative discipline in Labour’s left-wing student groups. Basically, he has spent most of his life doing the boring yet serious stuff for the Labour Party: the admin.
He has been attacked by Muscat’s faction for being against Joseph Muscat’s rehabilitation in Labour, so of course, his departure is a victory for them. Randolph Debattista was one of the key individuals who had cut-off Muscat from the Party’s infrastructure in 2019. Only he could have done such a thing in his position. It doesn’t make a significant difference however, given that Randolph Debattista’s role in the Labour Party was apolitical: taking in donations and depositing them at the bank, paying bills, managing payroll and all this vital but boring paperwork. You need someone competent for that role especially when the Labour Party is struggling to pay its very long list of bill payments.
Robert Abela will have a hard time replacing Randolph Debattista. He hasn’t been fired and he’s leaving his post on his own accord following many internal disagreements with the Prime Minister about politics. Mainly Randolph Debattista is tired of hauling the Labour Party’s machine when this machine is going bonkers in the political field and he mostly regrets many of the Party’s policies and decisions from the Jean-Paul Sofia case, the environment to Labour’s fight against the judiciary to save Joseph Muscat. For himself personally, leaving is a good decision, but surely he will remain in the realm of politics in some way or another.
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