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Φ 3. The Agony Aunt Watching Jason Micallef on Bondi+ you could easily begin to tear the hair out of your head. One by one. Jason Micallef really believes that there is no problem for PL if they attract people to their fold simply “ghax imwegghin” (because they are hurt) even if it is evident…
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Φ 2. The Internecine Warfare There’s cracks in the party and now it’s a show for everyone to see. The Nationalist party was not only the main party to suffer from this general vote of no confidence in the system. For the first time ever the cracks and faults within the flailing structure of the…
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Φ 1. The “Earthquake” This is the first in a series of pill-sized reflections on the outcome of this year’s EP elections. We kick off with Joseph Muscat’s Labour and query their cause for celebration. The figures are such that would not justify any excessive jubilation. PL 2009 has less votes (head to head) than…
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Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening that he viewed the result of the European Parliament elections as “worse than we wished for but better than expected.” Once the Labour euphoria of interpreting this result as a vote of no-confidence in the nationalist government has abated we might be able to examine these election results…
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J’accuse was right. Nobody or practically nobody voted the J’accuse way. There, that settles that one. What else happened? Disillusioned nationalists stayed at home. Turnout was around 79% and Labour got around 57% of the vote of the people who bothered to turn out. Of those who bothered to turn out it seems that the…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared on today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. I recently learnt of a very special old Maltese “gadget” when chatting with a Maltese linguist who works at the European Parliament. For a while I thought he was pulling my leg but a quick check n Serracino Inglott’s Il-Miklem…