Tag: Sandra Gauci
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ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci says Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against censorship circular
ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci, who is a teacher herself, stated that the Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against the Department of Education’s circular censoring educators. The Department of Education issued a circular late last year ordering educators not to speak in public about the education system so as not to “compromise…
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The problem with the Nationalist Party is not its leader, but what it represents: ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci
ADPD and Green Party leader Sandra Gauci sent a statement to The Maltese Herald following the publication of our opinion about the Nationalist Party’s leader. We are publishing it in full. Her comments resonate with what we have been writing about PN recently. “PN’s problem isn’t its leader but what it represents: ideas that are…
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Sandra Gauci and ADPD surging in Gozo
Recent political polls show that the green party is surging in votes in Gozo taking 5.8% share of the vote. The Nationalist Party seems to have regained its majority in Gozo with a 47.4% share of the vote and Labour trailing behind with 41.7% of the vote. This is great news for the the Green…
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Crashing your political party debut with misogyny
Arnold Cassola’s party debut is going exactly as I thought it would. Last year, I interviewed Arnold Cassola and challenged him for failing to work with the same party he founded, ADPD. Arnold Cassola has a reputation among Green Party activists of being very uncompromising, vane, and extremely arrogant. Arnold Cassola always brought the excuse…
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ADPD slams Labour for ignoring corruption and undermining good governance
ADPD-The Green Party believes that Malta’s governance is under serious strain due to rampant corruption and lack of accountability undermining the country’s institutions. In a press conference held this morning outside the Office of the Prime Minister, Deputy Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo attacked the Labour government for its complete disregard for scandals involving misappropriation of social…
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2025 will bring new political changes in the political opposition, but will these changes benefit the Labour Party?
2024 was a year of significant political change mainly due to the Labour Party’s loss of a seat in the European Parliament at the European elections. The Labour Party has bene gradually losing its support over a series of scandals and an intransigence by its leader and the Prime Minister to absolve himself and the…
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Sandra Gauci gets elected to the Saint Paul’s Bay Local Council
ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci has just been elected to the Local Council of Saint Paul’s Bay. The locality, which was previously lead by a Labour Party mayor has also flipped with a Nationalist Party majority. The new mayor of Saint Paul’s Bay will be former PN Minister ?ensu Galea. Sandra Gauci got a total of…
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Hate to say I told you so
One of the consistent arguments I made throughout the European Parliament election campaign is that Arnold Cassola was making the wrong decision to go at it all alone instead of joining forces with ADPD, his actual and previous home-party. Arnold Cassola contested by himself and got around 12,000 votes in total, much higher than ADPD’s…
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It doesn’t look good for alternative candidates
If voting patterns are consistent with the 2019 election bar some differences with Robert Metsola getting more votes, it is the Nationalist Party that will be making significant gains in this election and not alternative candidates. As I wrote earlier, independent candidates like Arnold Cassola (although he will surely be getting a better result from…
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President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola meets ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci
Undoubtedly, these are the only two candidates that can get my first preference followed by the other. None of them were heard screeching and screaming as often happens in the alternate reality of the Labour Party. Instead, both of them wished each other well and hoped to get elected in the next election. The meeting…
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ADPD have released their Election Manifestos along with Campaign Videos
ADPD have released their Election Manifestos along with two short campaign election videos, one for the European Parliament election and the other for the Local Council elections. Each video features all their election candidates. The ADPD European Parliament election candidates are Sandra Gauci Ralp Cassar Mina Tolu Rachelle Deguara Their European Parliament Election Manifesto can…
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There already is a progressive third party and it’s called ADPD
ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci has been punching above her weight in local politics. Apart from campaigning and meeting people on a daily basis, she is out on the beat pushing her campaign trail with house events and attending various functions. She does this nearly as a full-time job, unpaid and of her own will. So,…
