The two main political parties in Malta seem intent on shooting themselves in the foot. The governing party (Nationalist) has, on Monday, denied putting any pressure on the Sliema councillor who stood down after admitting he had made comments about paying Labour party people within his employ less than Nationalists.
Meanwhile the Party in Opposition, (Labour), which is aiming at winning the next election, announced that it defended a councillor who successfully contested last week’s local elections. It said that it had no problem with him contesting on its behalf, since he had shouldered responsibility for his actions.
He was re-elected with 420 first count votes, the highest number won by candidates on his party’s ticket.
The councillor had been given a suspended sentence in September 2010 after pleading guilty to vandalising balustrades at the Attard parish church the previous summer. The court was told that he had acted in a fit of rage after promising constituents he would remove them.
Following his conviction he had resigned from the LP and stayed on as an independent councillor, but later rejoined the party.
Considering the uphill struggle the LP has been grappling with to make people forget about violence connected with its party in the past, I would have thought they would have given this issue more serious attention.
I was also as baffled by the Attard people who voted in a councillor who acted violently as with the Sliema voters who voted in a bigoted one. Was it, yet again, because the right-minded did not bother to vote? Do the Attard people really want someone who loses his rag if he does not get his way to represent them?
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