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The Opposition Leader is also weaving in some partisan rhetoric with defence discourse

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Mark Camilleri
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Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has remained consistent in supporting Ukraine’s bid for European Union membership and even this week that Europe should keep defending Ukraine.

Earlier this week Opposition Leader Bernard Grech was at the European Peoples Party leaders’ summit on defence in Brussels where he met with incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. At the end of the summit he gave a brief speech which was quoted by the local press.

PN Leader Bernard Grech is supportive of the EU’s ReArm programme but intertwined his local partisan rhetoric with his defense discourse by incorporating his most talked-about topic: the cost of living. Lately, PN LEader Bernard Grech has been hammering about the cost of living and promising more subsidies in order to try and compete with the Labour Party on the Labour Party’s terms.

This does not help the current wave of disinformation by the Labour Party which is saying that defence investments will come at the expense of social security spending. Peter Agius of the PN had a much better message to convey on defense

 

 

 

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4 responses to “The Opposition Leader is also weaving in some partisan rhetoric with defence discourse”

  1. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    I agree that, to an ear in tune with the times, cost of living is not a subject to bring up during a serious conversation about defence. However, Bernard Grech may be playing smart politics here.

    Ultimately, in a democracy, it is through the ballot box that governments win the right to pass budgets, and many people who either think that spending on defence is irrelevant/unnecessary for Malta, or think that spending on defence will result in a lower pension and less social security, will not vote for higher spending on defence.

    What Grech is, I suppose, trying to do is bridge the gap between the nonchalant (Russian talking point, really) attitude of the prime minister and the newly found interest in defence spending shown by European leaders.

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