Exposed: Why Robert Abela protected Clayton Bartolo and Clint Camilleri and fired Rosianne Cutajar and Justyne Caruana

That’s a good question and the answer is very obvious, though perhaps, I have taken it for granted due to my intricate knowledge of the Labour Party.

First things first, Robert Abela is making the mistake of assuming that corruption and scandals are not affecting the electorate and what’s swinging the electorate are policies, cost of living and social issues. He is genuinely and obstinately dismissing the liberal vote that will vote according to moral principles and not according to traditional politics. This does not answer the question though. Why was Justyne Caruana fired while the others are left hanging on to power?

The answer is straightforward: Rosianne Cutajar and Justyne Caruana were more loyal to Joseph Muscat than to Robert Abela, giving him a convenient excuse to dismiss them when their scandals surfaced. However, Abela later reinstated Rosianne Cutajar as part of a performative gesture of appeasement towards Joseph Muscat and his faction–an appeasement that, in practical terms, holds little significance. Rosianne Cutajar is currently being investigated by the Police over money-laundering: this we know because the Police requested information about her from Bank of Valletta and also from Parliament with regard top her declarations of assets. Parliament is trying to resist giving some information to the Police with House Speaker Anġlu Farrugia trying to obstruct the investigation about her in his typical obscene defense of Labour MPs.

There are many hidden layers to internal Labour Party politics which I may have not been very explicit about. More in my next article.

Mark Camilleri

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