The people have spoken. And how they have. A resounding go Gonzi, go away. To people my age, or thereabouts, the words go-go are slightly naughty. Go-go dancers were the then tasselled strippers or lap-dancers, to give them their modern name.
Gonzi might be criticised for the way he did many things but he led the country well and maintained the prosperity of our little rock. The BBC itself described Malta as “one of the most successful economies in the Eurozone.” Gonzi nimbly danced and survived battering after battering ironically not from an over-agile Joseph Muscat but from various auto-goals and JPOs, never-ending gaffes, bus and salary-hike débâcles.
The PN in government delivered but had too many demons. Battered and beaten by internal strife, Gonzi managed to hang on to government till just before elections were duly due. His party had a lack-lustre campaign with little to offer except a certificate of good results in these last five years. Hardly enough for an electorate that desires more and ever more.
And the people delivered their ringing, stinging message: out with the PN, a modernising party in 1987 but which in 2013 did not attract the young, the old or the floater.
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