I really empathize with the PN’s leading commentators showing their disbelief that the arrest warrant against the AD leader has been issued on the eve of the general election.

Many of these rightly note that everybody has to pay its his/her dues. At the same time they are against extreme measures to make people pay their arrears.

Indeed, the same commentators were surprised by what happened to Harry Vassallo and their first reaction has been that of trying to prove a plot or a frame up against the PN by the MLP or even AD!

They know that what happened to Mr Vassallo was unconventional to say the least.

But strangely enough they seem to ignore that it was a NET journalist who raised this issue in the first place. And this happened four hours BEFORE Mr Vassallo was informed directly by the Police!

Aren’t the PN-leaning commentators, for example, interested in knowing how a NET journalist knew beforehand that Mr Vassallo was to be approached by the Police on the matter?

Aren’t they interested in knowing who ‘leaked’ the information?

This is not a question of trying to persuade somebody to vote AD or MLP.

It is an exercise to determine what behaviour we expect from our political masterminds.

Many are now of the opinion that the NET journalist was following precise instructions from Medialink Communi-cations and the PN strategy group to put questions to Mr Vassallo on the matter.

Why?

Probably because as happened in the case of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, a NET TV journalist has already obeyed instructions from the PN strategy group to let JPO replace her during a TVM press conference. This implicates that a standard pattern – a strategy - is being followed.

If this is the case, then let me say that such strategy is really irritating and pitiable.

In the end, this will simply harm the PN.

K Caruana

(www.timesofmalta.com)