Dr Simon Busuttil, in an interview with the Sunday Times of Malta, boasted that the PN’s secret ‘cedoli’ scheme is nearing the €3 million mark. He said that this has cleared him from “political obligations”. Has it?

Besides the fact that the PN had never denied media reports that the PN has over a €22 million debt, €3 million is nowhere near clearing the PN’s debt, the fact that no one, except Simon Busuttil and the PN’s hierarchy , will ever know the names of those 300 people (which could be much less if there were those who bought more than one ‘cedola’ worth €10,000 each), since this scheme is based on the names being kept secret, how can the Maltese people know that the PN does not already have “political obligations” once the scheme was for people who “wished to help finance the PN”? Is it not logical to believe then that whenever the PN returns to government, Simon Busuttil and his party in government will then return the compliment?!

Dr Busuttil and the PN had made such a big fuss about the names of IIP Maltese passport holders which at first were going to be kept secret, but whose names are now published in the Government Gazette. Isn’t it ironic that the same Simon Busuttil now boasts about, at most, 300 people having helped finance the PN when we can never know who these people are, something which goes completely against the spirit of the law on the financing of political parties! The Prime Minister has challenged Simon Busuttil to publish the names of the holders of the ‘cedoli scheme’. Of course, Simon will not do that since whenever he is challenged to “walk the talk”, he shies away. Even more so now when, according to a report in l’orizzont based on PN inside information, it transpires that only €300,000 have been invested in the cedoli scheme, or just 30 investors up to now! No wonder the PN has failed to pay €15,000 to the contractor who removed the PN’s illegal billboards, and wanted this scheme to be kept secret!! Simon Busuttil’s “Honest Politics” are just two words with which he hopes to dupe some voters!

I would have wished to send this letter to The Sunday Times of Malta since the interview was published in that newspaper. But knowing that it would not have been published as all my letters with a political content sent to The Sunday Times of Malta have all been ignored for so long, I decided to send it to The Malta Independent on Sunday.

Eddy Privitera

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