From Mr L. Genovese Cole

I refer to the Lm2,000 awarded to Dr Alfred Sant and, although I am a supporter of our beloved President, I always use my head and not my heart and see things in their right perspective, as fair is fair.

There are three indubitable failings in the former premiership. Dr Eddie Fenech Adami always told us that Malta need not worry about finances, which we now know was and is not the case. In fact he has been called “the money-no-problem Prime Minister”, as the finances of our country are at the lowest ever, as everybody knows.

The former Prime Minister failed to carry out the much needed national reconciliation between the parties. Grandeur in statesmanship would demand the appointment of a Labour President, to play on the feelings of a great part of our population. Many, many people think that the move from premiership to the presidency was a bad move, planned in the corridors of power against the wishes of the people. Even many Nationalists were disappointed to see the Head of State resolute “to lick it to the last”, and this at the expense of national unity, still politically weaker than ever, in spite of lip service to the contrary.

The third failure that comes to mind is on everybody’s lips: how, after all these years, can a Catholic government tolerate a situation where the rent of a water metre or a TV licence is more costly than the annual rent of a house, a situation which Dr Fenech Adami should have never allowed to continue over the years, a glaring failure. So one feels that the allegation of the former Prime Minister on TV, which cost him Lm2,000, is part of a set, and I write this with a Nationalist pen but with impartiality. The political game has flaws everywhere. One only needs to scrutinise objectively.

Lewis Genovese Cole

GZIRA