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Doing It the right way

Malta Independent Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago

Some are desperately trying to deter voters from bringing real change to this country. By real change I do not mean posting a new bunch of blue-eyed lads or lasses from the same Nationalist breed, or a complete new creed from Labour.

By real change I mean having a much warranted third voice in our Parliament, and possibly a coalition governance. Now that would make real history after an interlude of a handful of decades in our past political history.

Those who, election after election, do their cheap best to keep AD from a deserved representation in Parliament have brought the same blunt excuses. Now they repeatedly remind us of the multiple-fragmented coalition in neighboring Italy, which has failed miserably barely a few months after being elected to govern.

To begin with, though I do not like the chap and his antics, Berlusconi led a fully-fledged coalition which lasted the entire legislative term. Another thing which should lambast the irrational criticism of having a coalition is the simple fact that 22 out of the 27 EU countries have coalition governments. Have they all gone berserk? Now where have all the anti-coalition parrots flown?

Saviour Sammut

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