Adrian Delia wrote an article for The Malta Independent referring to EU Commission reports about Malta’s ongoing Excessive Deficit Procedure. The reports make reference to Malta’s energy subsidies and recommend them to be cut.
Opposition Leader Alex Borg said that he wants to retain energy and electricity subsidies indefinitely and his position aligns with the government‘s position.
Adrian Delia is saying that Brussels is right and that electricity and energy subsidies need to be addressed. Effectively, Adrian Delia, who is also the spokesperson for finances of the Nationalist Party, is taking a contrasting position from his leader.
On the other hand, the government is indeed cutting its deficit and is even moving closer to a budgetary surplus. Quoting the EU Commission reports on Malta without referring to this fact is meaningless. The government is successfully balancing its budget by collecting more revenue, but this trend is also at risk.
The Nationalist Party doesn’t seem to be having internal discussions about the state of the government’s finances, and it currently has two distinctive voices on a major issue. Note, that this is not a problem unique to the Nationalist Party. The Prime Minister’s cabinet is not discussing this important issue either, and there is in fact little to no discussion within the government about these structural problems.
I don’t find Adrian Delia to be the least competent in the finance sector, but then again, I don’t care very much about the identity of a person who is bringing up the most important issues.
There is a major lack of discussion in our country about most major aspects and problems of our society with the government trying to convince us that everything is great as long as Labour remains in power. the only problem and challenge that the government has admitted to is the demographic problem. The Labour government is ignoring other major problems that are developing rapidly.
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