The government’s tourism envoy Joe Grima has lashed out on Facebook against President Emeritus Eddie Fenech Adami, saying that he is in Malta’s political history as the greatest embarrassment ever to walk in and out of the House of Representatives.

Joe Grima, a former Labour minister in the 1980s, was reacting to comments made on a PBS programme by PN leader Beppe Fenech Adami, who said that Mr Grima embarrassed the Labour Party he belongs to with the position he took against the integration of migrants in Maltese society.

Mr Grima said that his position on migrants’ integration is shared by the great majority of the Maltese people and is nothing but a free expression of national sentiment on the subject.

Calling Dr Beppe Fenech Adami “avukatin” in a derogatory way, Mr Grima said that Beppe should not speak of embarrassment when it is his father Eddie who will be remembered in history as the greatest embarrassment ever to be in Parliament.

Mr Grima then goes on to list occasions in which, according to him, Dr Eddie Fenech Adami embarrassed the country, foremost among which is “his self Napoleon-style coronation” as President of the Republic.

Dr Fenech Adami, Mr Grima writes, embarrassed the nation when he accepted that civil marriage is inferior to Catholic marriage, when he instigated Labour supporters for a fight outside the law courts and had to shoulder responsibility for political discrimination.

Mr Grima added that Dr Fenech Adami embarrassed the nation when he placed his personal values as a national guide, resisted calls for the introduction of divorce and met with dubious people.

Dr Fenech Adami took part in political activities after the end of his presidency and, above all, did not feel ashamed when his predecessor George Borg Olivier was stabbed in the back in a “political massacre” from which it was Dr Fenech Adami who benefited, Mr Grima wrote.

People in glasshouses should not throw stones, Mr Grima said.