Tag: reform
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Alex Borg’s PN: The Party as an End in Itself?
The first days of Alex Borg’s leadership of the Partit Nazzjonalista leave me with more questions than answers. He has stepped into a role that carries the weight of history—but also of failure, stagnation, and disillusionment. The PN isn’t just in opposition; it’s in crisis. And yet, if you listened only to Borg’s early speeches,…
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This Is the Record: Malta’s Institutions Are Being Hollowed Out
Let us begin with a truth that bears repeating: democracy does not die in one fell swoop, but by a series of quiet manipulations, each too technical to stir mass indignation, each cloaked in the language of efficiency, reform, or sovereignty. Malta is not facing an immediate coup. But what it is experiencing is something…
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Il Triangolo No
I. Stability is a partisan word Third parties, third ways. An online poll conducted by the paper Illum showed, among other things, that 14% of respondents would vote for a new party since they have no more faith in either the PN or the PL. Talk about a possible third way being a panacea for…
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This honourable judge
Life on the island past the electoral truce has been anything but boring. There are times when the concept of boredom can begin to seem to be an unattainable desirable bereft of the negative connotations that normalcy and monotony might normally carry. These are the kind of times best described as “interesting” in the Chinese…