Since independence, Malta has been led, ruled and shared by Labour and Nationalist governments, and we are witnessing the result in the present scenario of an unhealthy and bipartisan political system.
The Democratic Party’s representation in Parliament has, for the first time, introduced a multi-party system and is striving hard to fix this broken political system, which has descended to the very roots of society, in a modus operandi of ‘us and them’ and ‘anything goes’.
It is evident that an unspoken, binding agreement exists between the two major parties led by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Opposition leader Adrian Delia. They both want to elbow the PD out. Their loyalty to their party, and not the public interest, dictates this agenda.
We are living in an era where we have two different applications to the rule of law. One is binding and addresses society, and the other is full of legal loopholes to accommodate the patronage of the two major political parties, both in the House and outside it. A case in point is the way the constitutional reform is being handled by both parties, as if it were a back room deal.
Simply stated, the Constitution is a social contract between...
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