The electoral campaign has begun with a vengeance. We were bombarded by references to LAN (I hope I got it right), the interconnector, gas pipelines, all sorts of figures and statistics, technical data galore. The discussion about the utility rates totally dominated the debate. Everything else, including the publication of the electoral manifesto of the PN was put on the back burner, if noticed at all. One get the impression that given the length of the campaign the PN are playing their cards at a slower pace than the PL. We’ll see how things progressed.
The discussion about the utility bill is very important. The result of the election will surely be greatly influenced by how much people believe or not the Labour leader. One notices also that several participate in the debate without knowing what it is really all about. Among the things that struck my attention during this first week of the electoral campaign was this comment posted under some blog or other.
“Dear EX MINISTER Mr fenech, you said that by the PLs proposals will go into private hands if they build the POWER STASTION, mela, MID MED BANK, LOTTO, AIR MALTA, TUG MALTA; you have sold our GROWN JEWLES to the private...
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