Who is Mark von Brockdorff and why are you contesting these European Elections?

I am the son of Lt Colonel Baron Edward von Brockdorff and Baroness Margaret von Brockdorff née Ingham. I am a Gozitan-Maltese intent on taking a universal message to the electorate and providing viable institutional solutions to social policy problems. The models for Family Care centres in every district is based on The Malta Memorial District Nursing Association (MMDNA) model founded by my grandfather Captain Robert Ingham.

I am running to change the hearts and minds of people clearly fed up with all the broken and lost promises made by the major parties whose representatives I challenge because the social and drug problems have reached critical proprtions and despite all my work in the past decade there are serious issues which have not been addressed in schools. Sex education is just a part of the equation.

Briefly outline the main issues on which your electoral campaign is conducted.

There are too many complex issues to warrant one simple answer so the family care centres are there to tackle the roots of a number of problems which affect 20 per cent of the electorate who have empty wallets and must turn to crime, stealing from homes or in the streets simply to survive.

There can be no unsustainable land development. We must convert to wind, sun and sea energy in order to reduce drastically the production of toxic waste. I will make Gozo energy cost free within a year and Malta within three to five years. This projection is based on costs of around US$380 million using models for Hong Kong, Singapore and The Channel Islands.

Do you think you have national appeal as a candidate?

I have a universal message and a fresh appeal to the electorate on the grounds that the best qualified five must go to Brussels working FOR the people and not their respective parties. It is time for a rainbow co-alition not a subdivided country seeped in mistrust.

People have been afraid of the pandemia of HIV/AIDS. The problems we have are mainly among those still in their teens is drugs. There are as many heroin pushers as there are users who spend an average Lm60 a day chasing the dragon.

Synthesised cocaine (PCP mixed with babies’ teething powder) causes frozen arm syndrome and the detox system at St Luke’s offers no after care counselling so that the methadone is just another part of their daily coctail mix, a stabilizer to sustain them until the next hit.

Alcoholism is rife among the very young. ID cards must be given to 10-year-olds and up and shop keepers given severe fines when they are caught selling liquor to anyone who is ‘obviously’ underage (14 or less). Binge drinking is now the norm.

What do you believe are the main issues on which these elections will be fought?

The main issue is to stabilize the economy. Shut down government loss leaders such as Malta Drydocks and retrain workers in the environmental industry which must be our main focus. The Drydocks can be streamlined for building small vessels and a super yacht haven. It must be run by internationally trained managers and the unions and their workers should be rewarded on a productivity basis or become unemployed without transfering their bad work practices elsewhere.

Briefly outline the situation regarding your proposal to unite independent candidates

My proposal is to form a rainbow coalition of all independents and other interested party candidates. This would have already been prevalent had the party-owned papers had the decency to publish my work.

A final message to the electorate

“Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country (JFK)”.