The Nationalist Party has concluded a week-long general council that was intended to draw up a plan for the future. It is good that the party goes back to its roots, for it has been out of orbit for far too long.
Party leader Adrian Delia is a change from his predecessor, Simon Busuttil. He came from outside the party and won by a popular vote among party members who wanted a break from the past. Clearly, he can reach out to those voters but that is obviously not enough.
Dr Delia is up against an evidently immensely popular Prime Minister. But Joseph Muscat seems to have lost the plot since the idealism he promoted in 2013, which should be an opportunity for Dr Delia. The government is mired with maladministration and very serious allegations of corruption.
The worst that Dr Delia can do is offer the same. His ‘new way’ cannot be a Nationalist version of Labour. The country does not deserve that.
Statements like those made by deputy leader Robert Arrigo, that Labour could win a two-thirds parliamentary majority do not impress, even if the threat may be real. It is not a way to unite the party behind its leader. Fear does not unite, vision does.
PN general secretary Clyde Puli...
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