Owing to the deadlock in the appointment of the Chief Justice due to the intransigence of the Prime Minister and his insistence on appointing his friend and ally as Chief Justice, I suppose it is inevitable that this issue will be discussed in Parliament. However, the Opposition is holding back from discussing matter in public which I find strange, especially considering the alarming situation in which the Labour government wants to impose a dictatorship via a fait accompli.
The Nationalist Opposition needs to discuss the alarming state of rule-of-law in Malta where both the Office of the Attorney General and the office of the Police Commissioner are controlled by the government. The Opposition should not be helping the government to normalise the current situation in which the government is manipulating the system of justice.
Added with the fact that the role of the Chief Justice is one of the most important State roles, the appointment merits a very wide and extensive discussion in Parliament and not backroom negotiations that disregard the political context of the rule-of-law crisis that we are in. The Opposition can not be trusted blindly about this matter especially after appointing Joe Giglio as its spokesperson for Justice, indicating a potential continuity with Labour over matters regarding the crisis in the rule-of-law.
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