The Minister for Agriculture and Animal Rights Anton Refalo is blackmailing animal activists to support his horrible reform that allowed the legalisation of wild and exotic animals. His position is very simple but needs some explaining. You can see this grotesque display where the Minister of Agriculture has co-opted animal rights activists to support his latest amnesty for Christian Borg since the royal criminal has abandoned his lions and has compelled the government to find a solution for them with our own taxes.
Obviously, the first thing one notices is that the Commissioner for Animal Welfare, Alison Bezzina, is absent from the press conference with the Minister, who is technically her boss. Commissioner Bezzina never agreed to the legalisation of the import of wild and exotic animals and is keeping a distance from these latest reforms providing an amnesty to those who haven’t registered their animals yet. The Commissioner is also not involved in the consultation and the drafting of these laws.
Minister Refalo is one of the most shameless and sleaziest Ministers in the Cabinet and he views his current role as a demotion (he was previously Minister for Gozo). He doesn’t care about anyone let alone about the well-being of animals. His Parliamentary Secretary is in the pockets of tuna-ranchers and couldn’t care less if Maltese criminals are allowed to import lions and tigers. Minister Refalo can’t co-opt the Commissioner for Animal Welfare to support his rancid reforms, so instead he is putting animal rights activists in a situation where he blackmails them by bulldozing over animal rights unless they cooperate with him to push his reforms. I have spoken extensively with Althea Galea and although she didn’t confirm this to me, I’m pretty sure she is being compelled to do this out of good-will, because she feels threatened and blacmailed by the Minister. In reality she feels that if she is not present, the Minister would go ahead and do worse. I’m not so sure about Moira Delia though who will always take an opportunity to show herself.
The story here is that the Commissioner for Animal Welfare doesn’t support these reforms, and animal rights activists are compelled to support these reforms by blackmail and a very clear disregard for animal rights. I understand that there are many serious things going on right now, but I find the laughing Minister behind the animal rights activists as a very fitting representation of the disgusting way by which this government has grown accustomed to fraud, criminality and shameless corruption.
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