The Labour government is turning Malta into a fully criminal autocracy by removing the citizens’ right to request Magisterial Inquiries. This reform will ensure that the Police, run by a corrupt political agent, will hold exclusive control over all requests for inquiries.
What is also alarming about these reforms is that the government is introducing a measure which will impose financial damages on citizens who file “vexatious” reports. This is ironic considering that the government has just refused amendments to the press law proposed by the Opposition which would have instituted damages against citizens instituting vexatious libel cases.
Now, not only do we have a corrupt Police Commissioner who refuses to investigate political corruption and organised crime, but this corrupt Police Commissioner will also be handed power to punish you with economic damages if you file a request for an investigation. This is, effectively a deterrence against citizens filing requests for investigations.
The Labour government’s policy actions about justice and criminal law are consistently made in favour of criminals, but are especially aimed at consolidating impunity for political abuse. The Labour government is constructing a very rigid criminal autocracy where its politicians will be completely immune from the law and with corruption and the abuse of power now allowed to an even wider extent.
Basically, the Labour government is doing the opposite of what it should be doing. It is currently damaging institutions even further, controlling them even further and leaving them incapable of addressing organised crime and political corruption.
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