Fearing that a large number of unhappy Maltese voters who formerly blindly voted for the ruling Labour Party will desert it, due to the massive corruption exposed by media since 2017, the country's Prime Minister, Robert Abela, has resorted to the payment of bribes into their pockets. Disguised as "Tax Rebates," and further burdening a government with an extraordinary amount of debt, the €100 and €200 payments, coming just ahead of National Elections, have been seen by the press for what they actually are.
Independent candidate Arnold Cassola has filed an objection to this obvious bribery attempt, with the Electoral Commission, and the OSCE, naming the PM and Finance Minister Clyde Caruana, and alleging corrupt practices. He is spot on with his charges, although Malta's government agencies, which are rotten to the core, will never act, as their members owe total allegiance to the Labour Party, which appointed them to the offices they hold, in an archaic patronage system that simply has to go.
The only solution to Malta's nine-year corruption nightmare is the dissolution of the Labour Party, whether through voluntary action, or legal means, as its leadership, in bed with both the Maltese Mafia, as well as the country's business sector, whose kickbacks illicit payments to politicians for projects that exploit and loot the Maltese treasury, have rendered the party an Enemy of the State. Malta sorely needs to see the birth of a new political party, philosophically left of centre, but free from the obsolete and negative baggage of Dom Mintoff, whose violent approach to politics still stains Labour, making it unsuitable for the twenty-first century.
Here is the complete text of Mr. Cassola's Report:
Is- Sur Joseph Camilleri
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