As stated in the previous article, Adrian Delia and Alex Borg are uniting together to make a bid for the Nationalist Party’s leadership, starting by supporting their favourite candidate for the post of Secretary General: Charles Bonello. Their political strategy is to move the party further away from the civil-society movement currently involving ex-PN stalwarts like Jason Azzopardi. The Delia-Borg faction sees Charles Bonello as the preferred candidate in contrast to his young rivals who are more supportive of the fight against rule-of-law and these are Stefan Caruana and Liam Sciberras.
The Delia-Borg faction is making it clear that they are steering the Nationalist Party in a specific political direction, with party leader Bernard Grech capitulating to their demands. This is why Bernard Grech is often discussing about “measures for the cost of living” rather than the rule-of-law crisis. Yesterday, the father of Adrian Delia’s partner, had an article against the PN leader published in The Malta Independent. I spoke to people who know Emmanuel J. Galea and his daughter, Cynthia Galea, very well, and they all confirmed that Emmanuel J. Galea is very close to his daughter and would not do anything to harm her politically: and by this I also mean and include her partner. Basically, if he had written that article, he would have discussed it with her beforehand.
In fact, the Delia-Borg faction is increasingly sounding the alarm within the party over its impending defeat in the general elections. They are the ones who are mostly pressing the Nationalist Party to overhaul itself, but this won’t be in the way that many would expect. The Delia-Borg faction is currently being backed by Ray Bezzina, a veteran of the Nationalist Party and an employee of DB Group. Apart from being suspected of serving as the interlocutor between DB Group and the Nationalist Party, Ray Bezzina is well known in PN as being supportive of the Delia-Borg faction because he personally believes, that their political direction and strategy will ensure a victory for the party in the general election. I spoke to him before writing this article and he denied supporting Charles Bonello in his bid for the post ofSecretary General, but refused to give further comments when my questions began to get more complex.
The Nationalist Party is facing a severe financial crisis, and DB Group is already known to be one of its major donors. That DB Group would back an eventual Alex Borg PN leadership bid should come as no surprise given Alex Borg’s strong insistence in defending Malta’s large property developers, even to the extent of lying on their behalf. And why wouldn’t DB Group bail-out PN in exchange for taking over its policies? Alex Borg is basically handing over the Nationalist Party to Malta’s big hoteliers and developers. The Nationalist Party’s Wonder Kid.
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