Arnold Cassola’s party debut is going exactly as I thought it would. Last year, I interviewed Arnold Cassola and challenged him for failing to work with the same party he founded, ADPD. Arnold Cassola has a reputation among Green Party activists of being very uncompromising, vane, and extremely arrogant.
Arnold Cassola always brought the excuse that he left the Green Party over its position on abortion. We all knew this was not true and it was just his silly and petty excuse to find a way to remove himself from the Party and go into politics alone. He had no problem working with the Italian Green Party when it was pro-choice, but he definitely has a problem working with a Maltese woman if she is his party-leader. You can see below his horrible reaction to the current Green Party Leader Sandra Gauci when she challenged him about his position on abortion and his story on why he left ADPD. This should not be the behaviour of a man who is unifying factor in politics, nor someone who should be a leading figure in uniting opposition forces.
This situation, of bickering and toxic personalities is not positive for the third-party movement and the Opposition as a whole. Arnold Cassola brings a very exclusive, mysogonistic and toxic attitude to third-party politics which further fragments the opposition. Not to mention that Arnold Cassola’s party, Momentum, is now the latest party in Maltese politics with its leader being “pro-life”: exactly what we needed in Maltese politics.
The next third-party in parliament should bring a revolution in Maltese politics, and I’m sorry to say that the behaviour and attitude that Arnold Cassola’s espouses is definitely not the character of the person I want to save me from Malta’s collapse of rule-of-law. If there’s a third-party I support, it remains ADPD.
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