What a country this is: a politician makes an off-the-cuff remark and everyone and his brother has to jump in and read into it depths of meaning that are dependent only on the bits of the remark that they chose to hear.
Simon Busuttil said that the Nationalist Party is a party that does not eschew reconciliation, indeed it is one that embraces it. He said this when asked for his thoughts about Franco Debono. Busuttil also said, but this bit is conveniently ignored by certain types, that at the same time, everyone must take responsibility for his actions, obviously including said Franco Debono. Busuttil did not, and I'd have used capitals if this was not a lazy way to write, say that the ban on Debono contesting the election (or anyone else's ban, for that matter) should be reversed, revised or otherwise changed.
Quite apart from any other consideration, the appropriate PN organ imposed the ban, and not Busuttil, and therefore he can't overturn it, even if he intended to, which he quite plainly didn't.
Obviously, where there is discord, harmony should be sown, where there is disconciliation, there should be reconciliation (and yes, I invented that word) but this is a statement of...
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