Sant's leadership

If any proof was needed to confirm this paper's editorial bias against the Labour Party and Alfred Sant in particular, this was given in the leader Summer Blues For PN, MLP (August 3).

In a pathetic effort to mitigate the chain of blunders committed by an incompetent and worn-out Nationalist government, the editorialist brought into the equation Dr Sant's leadership of the party.

Under Dr Sant's leadership, the Labour Party won a sound victory in the 2004 European Parliament elections. Since 2003 Labour won all three successive local council elections of all localities in Malta and Gozo, taking in the process traditional Nationalist strongholds like Msida and Pietà. Translated into figures, these local elections gave Labour a 52.3 per cent majority against the Nationalist Party's share of 44.5 per cent, electing 237 Labour councillors and 193 from the Nationalist Party.

Under Dr Gonzi's leadership the Nationalist Party did not win one single electoral challenge. The list of things that went wrong under his premiership, beginning with his inability, so far, to remove incompetent ministers, is also quite disturbing.

By the way, I was pleasantly surprised to read in the same editorial a fleeting reference to the audit report on the Voice of the Mediterranean.

But here again I do not share the writer's opinion. This report did not just raise "quite a few eyebrows". It pointed to a gross and uncontrolled recklessness in the management of public funds.