As Alex Borg is elected leader of the Nationalist Party an overwhelming sense of anomie is overtaking me. For the first time in many years I have a sense of resignation and pessimism to Maltese politics, which as a permanent optimist, I find a bit depressing. Partly the reason why the sadness is seeping in is because my potential future Prime Minister needs to look up “anomie” in the dictionary along with many other words he needs to learn as he prepares himself for his new mission.
I suggest that he starts by looking up the word “inflation”.
Alex Borg used to pick up the phone and answer my questions every time I called him. Then he stopped taking my questions after I outed him on Fort Chambray. He never took my call again since then.
So, the thirty year-old man who can’t handle critical journalists and difficult questions will potentially manage the whole country. The questions I would have asked would have supposedly been easy to answer, such as “What is the latest book that you have read?” You’d be surprised with some of the answers.
Beware what you wish for seems truer than I expected. Alex Borg has definitely proved himself to be a potential disrupter against the Labour Party. He is indeed a candidate who seems to be able to bring new votes for the PN. However, I fear that Alex Borg’s populist and Labour-like blueprint for politics will alienate many young people and he may way very well trigger a new exodus of disenchanted individuals from Maltese politics.
We are really in uncharted waters here. It is not very much in character of the Nationalist Party to take risks by appointing a leader who is just thirty-years old. This unusual move by the Nationalist Party has given it some credibility in the sense that it has enabled to project itself as visionary. The Nationalist Party found a solution to get out of its deadlock and start turning the wheels of a new alternative government. The bottom for PN seems to be in. However, many of us are not here to see the Nationalist Party bask in glory: we are here because we want the best of our country. We want a government that will undo the damage that the Labour government has made to rule-of-law, democracy and free speech and put Malta on a track of maturity, civic development and sustainable prosperity that does not destroy the environment and lock out the young generations from the property market. We simply want a normal country without the shadow of Joseph Muscat’s criminal organisation looking over the government.
Alex Borg sees things very differently because he is a post-2019 politician. His very quick success in politics is also a bit alarming. He has been rewarded for being handsome, a good talker, and a man that projects confidence and style: his appealing persona is what’s also disrupting Labour. Many electors prefer style over substance, and Alex Borg has a lot of the former but not much of the latter. As a village politician on the local stage, he can throw good punches and exude political success. As a potential governor of the country, I see him more like that light at the end of the tunnel which unfortunately unveils itself to be none other than a moving train.
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