Sant claims Mintoff was 'manipulated' by the PN

GiovDeMartino@L Galea

Oct 24th 2009, 12:25

"voluminous atrocities perpetrated by the PN. FATTI, FATTI, FATTI konkreti please otherwise I shall have to play Parole, Parole, Parole once again. Fatti konkreti u dokumntati bhalma dejjem naghmel jien. FFAATTTTII.

john muscat

Oct 23rd 2009, 22:08

Alas its useles now to try to blame your failure on anybody now Dr. Sant. The blame is you, People trusted you but you failed. They had every opportunity to elect you but you were mistrusted. You lost all your credibility.

p.grima

Oct 23rd 2009, 00:32

@-J.Borg-

".....we all remember the fracass of the PL clubs after the 1987 election....."

What fracass are you talking about? The Times, the Curia, the Courts, EFA's house, and the numerous PN clubs, on the other hand, were really vandalized. Some PN clubs were even shot at, resulting in a fatality.

p,grima

Oct 23rd 2009, 00:13

@-S. Farrugia

"Pity that some hated him so much. And the word is hate. Especially from the PN side."

In my humble opinion, it is YOUR words that seem so full of hate towards the PN side.

Joseph Borg

Oct 22nd 2009, 23:16

Anyone who doesn't admit that Mintoff was manipulated is living in the moon.

T Cilia

Oct 22nd 2009, 20:11

I would really like to understand where honesty and sincerity are perceived in this article! Is it possible that there are people who will believe ANYTHING one person says without even validating whether it could be true or false!! Unfortunately the biggest predicament for Malta is that there are far too many such people!

charles zammit

Oct 22nd 2009, 17:37

this interview showed one thing. dr sant no matter what his shortcomings are is a real gentleman.

Francis Attard

Oct 22nd 2009, 08:29

If the Domenic Fenech, who contributed on this blog, is the one who was once the MLP general secretary, how is it that he is so much against Alfred Sant and he didn't have the guts to cricise the Dom Mintoff's administration of both party and country? Alfred Sant was, by far, better in this respect.
Is it because it was better for him personally to stay quiet in those days?
I think, that in spite of all his bluff, Mintoff can easily be manipulated if he is given what he is interested in.

m zammit

Oct 22nd 2009, 07:40

Dr Sant tibqax twegga lin nies u lil partit bi kliem li tuza ghax flok gid hsara kbira ghamilt kemm lil partit kif ukoll lil hafna nies specjalment ta l-istess thaddin tieghek,ghax bhal ma qalet sew joyce aquilina il kelma traditur tefatna fl-opposizzjoni u bil kliem li uzajt [specjalment lil dawk bi twemmin politiku differenti go l-istess familja]li ghandom xi haga hazina fi DNA taghhom weggajt hafna nies, jien wahda minnhom.Jien nghid grazzi lil mintoff ta kull ma ghamel ghal pajjizna u l-iktar politikant kbir ikun dak li meta jaghmel il hazin jitlob SZUZA ta ghemilu.

Galea. L

Oct 21st 2009, 20:19

Michael Seychell
How about inculcating our children and grandchildren with the voluminous atrocities perpetrated by the PN and its apologists against the Maltese workers and PL supporters? Evryone knows that you have an axe to grind with the PL but you have been grinding it for so long that it has been eaten away.

J Martinelli How come you seem to hold Mintoff so much to your heart Martinelli? Don't misunderstand me. Mintoff was the greatest leader that Malta ever had. I also say that Dr Sant is onest , just and a man of honour as is Dr Muscat. Dr Sant was not given the chance to do what was necessary for our country, a man before his time. Character assassination is the hallmark of the PN Martinelli.

G. Mangion

Oct 21st 2009, 19:31

Fredu, imma kif ma tafx tisthi ? Igib Paraguni ma - Suldat Sfortunat ?
Li Kien hemm Mintoff Hdejk,,,,,,,,, hehhehehhe , pero dahaqtna Ftit L.O.L.

Neville Zammit

Oct 21st 2009, 19:02

@malcolm seychell
You know Muscat has already made up his mind about who he wants as his general secratery. He i trying very hard to convince Paul Borg Olivier but he really has a hard tak ahead as the nationalists want him at all cost as they are very happy with his performance!
I learnt that Joseph has already asked a PC lecturer to teach PBO to use a PC so he will not repeat the mistake of sending the wrong e-mail to the wrong person lol

R Agius

Oct 21st 2009, 19:02

@Cardona Charles
Foreigners appreciate intelligent people; Dr Sant is intelligent; ergo Dr Sant should be running the country!! By your reasoning we should get candidates to sit for an IQ test and the best 33 will govern the country headed up by the most intelligent! Ara kemm niffrankaw flus!! U halluna tridu!

Andrew Cachia

Oct 21st 2009, 18:33

and Dr Sant was at the helm to three consecutive labour defeats .In the election of 2008 the electorate were crying for change to due the absolute incompetence of the nationalist government and labour loses again. Sant was the determining factor

S. Pulis

Oct 21st 2009, 18:22

Dal-poplu li qed jaqbez ghall-festi bl-iskuza tal-patrun u tar-religjon halla u pperemeta l-mibgheda tigi regettata fil-konfront ta' Alfred Sant. Il-media ewlenija baghdet lil Alfred Sant. Il-PN mhux ikkonfronta lil Sant imma baghdu sal-ahhar anzi sa ma skreditah; mhux biss mal-partitarji nazzjonalisti imma anke ma uhud laburisti. Min jista' jiċħad li Mintoff kellu lill-PN jimpalah!!!!! Mela nsejtu kemm żiegħlu bih u ġabuh fuq NET TV jispjega kif dal-imbierek moll qatt ma seta jsir!!! Perit jekk hawn min iċapċaplek għal kollox jiena le! Dak li għamilt tajjeb nirringrazzjak għalih imma ħej mhux sew li fl-1996 kull min ivvota PL inti ġejt taqa' u tqum minnu għax pretendejt li tibqa' mexxej tal-partit! Bħalma ma kienx sew li ħallejt werriet tal-Partit lil KMB niex ikun pupazz! Jekk Mintoff weġġa' meta Sant sejjaħlu traditur, ħafna nies weġġgħu minħabba fih! Dak li bnejt inti FARRAKTU! U miegħu lill-ħaddiem!

P. Schembri

Oct 21st 2009, 17:57

@M. Seychell. I wonder what you and your ilk here stand to lose if Labour is elected in the next general elections. The way you harp about the past, seems as if passed through a holocaust! It was a phase in our history and that's that! Now it's passed, and both parties have worked, so that it won't happen again. Yes, we should teach our children the history of our country, but not in a lop-sided way, as y ou and your kind are doing. That is an aberration of facts. You and your party warped history to your liking. Why don't you mention the way the opposition was going at that that, most undemocratically! How at every step that was taken, by the then leader of the opposition, to topple the legitimate government.

James Grech

Oct 21st 2009, 17:57

@Michael Seychell
"The PN governments could have had some corruption, transfers etc,"
You need to quantify what you mean by "some" here and also state what you mean by "etc". Given the recent "balbuljati", one after the other your "some" is on the increase and your "etc" is getting more colourfull.

Cardona Charles

Oct 21st 2009, 17:45

Well done Dr .Sant Your worlds are really sincere and give one food for taught. Dr Sant is a man of real sincerity so much so that he is being invited to be one of the high profile speakers at the conference in Berlin to comemorate the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barranin japrezzaw l inteligenza ta Dr .Sant u CERTI Maltin jahsbu li trid tkun tal P.N. biex tkun inteligenti.

malcolm seychell

Oct 21st 2009, 17:34

Maybe he should try for the position of general secretary of the PL.

That would assure another win for PN

Hallina fred ahjar tkompli tikteb milli politika

Anthea Bezzina

Oct 21st 2009, 16:43

Most Maltese are not mature enough for a Dr. Sant in maltese politics and those who are would greatly prefer that he did not exist.

A.Busuttil

Oct 21st 2009, 16:20

What a waste !!!!!!!!!!!
he was the solution for Malta
he trusted to much his close friend s(?) who were only interestead to loose the election and grab the leadership....................... Thats why it is important what advise Dr Sant gave to Dr Muscat, Kliem tad deheb Guz............zomm il-lifa l-bghod

Neville Zammit

Oct 21st 2009, 15:28

Dr Alfred Sant will surely be remebered as an honest and upright polititian.

Also will be remembered as a polititian who lived "barra minn zmienu", his way of doing politics are too complex to be easily understood by the man in the street.

Dr Sant is the maltese iron man, he will never give up, he is a big fighter, witha strong personality.

He fought an election after a couple of weeks he undertook a major operation as a consequence of cancer....A man of guts who will go all the way to achieve his goal.

An idol indeed!

Noel Cutajar

Oct 21st 2009, 15:13

Ahna nghidu jekk tkun dritt ghal gewwa l-hajt tispicca!! F'Malta l-onesta mhalsa bis-sieq u xejn aktar.

Michael Seychell

Oct 21st 2009, 14:50

@ Govann Fenech - It is very evident that you do not want our youths to know the truth about the atrocities committed by the Socialist regime, despite the fact that there are at least 4 ex Ministers; 3 MP's and 2 ex Presidents active in the "NEW" LP, who where there when those atrocities happened. These are guilty through commission or ommission of such crimes.

You should know that the World still remind us every year of the First and Second World Wars, and yet there are many who claim that the holocast did not happen. Because of this the School children in Poland are being given new history books to stress what its population went through under the NAZI regime, albeit over fifty years passed since. .

Like many others I feel duty bound to inculcate in the minds of our children and granchildren the atrocities committed in the 70s/80s by the MLP, since I am certain people like you will never admit what actually happened than.

The PN governments could have had some corruption, transfers etc, but these can never be compared to the 70s/80s, even if two wrongs do not make one right !



Michael Seychell

P. Schembri

Oct 21st 2009, 14:48

Alfred Sant, the victim of the PN's character assassination technique! Whatever be said about him, will always be same. What the PN dictated throughout the years that Alfred Sant was leader of the MLP, is commented by the pn apologists below.

joyce aquilina

Oct 21st 2009, 14:39

dr sant tibqax taghmel hsara lil partit jekk veru thobbu lil partit.ghax ma tejdx li il kelma ta traditur wadbidna fl-oppozizjoni ghal dan iz zmien kollu u int qatt ma ridt tiskuza ruhek.
jien min qalbi nirringrazja lil Mintoff ta kull ma ghamel ghal malta u nirringrazja lil Alla li issa ghandna lil Joseph Muscat

malcolm seychell

Oct 21st 2009, 14:31

Mintoff manipulated!!! hehe good one fred. Dahhaqna ftit iehor ejja!!!

R Agius

Oct 21st 2009, 14:10

My comments directed at Joseph Sciberras we actually directed at Emmanuel Farrugia - my apologies.

Incidentally the Gunner Psaila episode is a clear example of political expediency to justify his assertions about the 'power of incumbency'. Political dishonesty without regard for how it will affect others who are not in politics ... another trait of Dr Sant.

James Grech

Oct 21st 2009, 13:50

@R. Agius
So what do you say about the present situation? Do you really believe that this is all due to the international crisis and that GonziPN is the solution to all our ailments? Or is it possibly the case that GonziPN is the major contributor to this state of affairs in Malta? Who is making the wrong decisions now? Who is not being ethically correct, now? Who is not hearing people's ailments, now? Who is the culprit for the steep and steady rise in prices, now? If these issues are not considered as important then I agree that David Bowie was right and that there is definitely Life on Mars.

James Grech

Oct 21st 2009, 13:44

My opinion about this man gets positively reinforced by time. even though I have never met him personally. Let me remind those PN sympathisers below that Dr. Sant was the only one, to my knowledge, that allowed PN sympathisers to maintain their role within gov. without being kicked out. He maintained that those that did their work well should not be removed just because of their political backgrounds. His mistake was to not predict Mr. Mintof's side-taking and to tie that vote to one of confidence in his government. This showed real honesty, which none of the PN prim ministers has every showed. If one considers the present situations which hints at "corruption" and mismanagement, gov. politicians should really learn from this person, about what ethics are and the behaviour of serious, responsible politicians.

J Martinelli

Oct 21st 2009, 13:29

Yet another chapter in the book of Dr.Sant's tragicomedy series!

Dr. Sant claims that Mintoff was manipulated by the NP in 1998!! Since when is Mintoff, an epitome of stubbornness, so easily manipulated? When has Mintoff been forced to compromise without receiving something (not money) in return? What did he get from the NP?

Dr. Sant cannot let go of the past as much as Mintoff's adulators still call the 70s and 80s 'that grand old time'. He proves that when he called Mintoff a 'traitor' he really meant it in its literal sense and here he is again, eleven years later, still bitter and still having no regrets at not being able to compromise with his own former leader!

He is criticizing Joseph Muscat for welcoming back Dom Mintoff after he had been excised from the party for a decade. No wonder the LP is still far from credibility since it still harbours regressive elements augmented by some ghosts of three decades ago.

Dr. Sant's attitude of blaming others for his own misguided ways, his negativity, his assessment of Malta's capability (makku) among greater nations, his opposition to joining the EU and Eurozone beg for an apology.

Andrew Cachia

Oct 21st 2009, 13:24

Abosolute nonsense. Mintoff is one of the very few persons who can never be manipulated. There are various reasons why Sant failed to lead the labour party to govern which also include the fact that he was unwell and the obvious power of incumbency. The most important however his inability to govern during his term, the referendum result shooting himself in the foot

ANDREW MIFSUD

Oct 21st 2009, 13:14

Dr Sant was right that he was manipulated ,in fact Mintoff took quite a lot of compensation for his Delimara home amung other things . This is just one reason why I see he was manipulated in my openion .
Dr Sant is onest , just and a man of honour.

Antonella Farrugia

Oct 21st 2009, 13:06

Nahseb Dr. Sant kien onest u sfortunatament fil- politika ma tantx tahdem din il- virtu'.

P. Schembri

Oct 21st 2009, 12:52

I'm not the same P.Schembri, who has contributed to these comments, down below.

J Brincat

Oct 21st 2009, 12:08

An intellectual and honest politian, if ever there was one. He was the man who transformed MLP into a modern party it is today. He rid the party of the violent elements who were greatly hurting the party. The PN expoited this to the hilt.. The story goes on even today. When things are not going the PN's way (as at present) we are constantly reminded by the PN and their apologists of these episodes.

If ever there was character assasination that levelled at him was a classical example. He was the target of vile and unchristian attacks, sometimes even personal.

Unfortunately he had foes even from within and which led to his downfall in 1998.

In my memory he will always be remembered as a great person!

James De Giorgio

Oct 21st 2009, 11:46

Rather cheeky of Sant to claim so more than a decade later, now that he knows anything that Mintoff might say in defence will not be taken seriously by the public.

I wonder who manipulated Sant to lose three elections in a row?

R Agius

Oct 21st 2009, 11:33

@Joseph Sciberras
In answer to your question it was belief that VAT would be removed and the promises that Dr Sant would solve everyone's ills. History shows that those two years were economically a disaster and two years later the electorate showed that it no longer believed Dr Sant because his track record was a miserable one.

Dr Sant failure to manage Mintoff proved to be his downfall - but he will never admit that he had the responsibility and the power to manage Mintoff and turn him into an asset for him and his party. Sadly for Dr Sant - but not for half of us - his failure as a manager resulted in us joining the EU.

P Schembri

Oct 21st 2009, 11:28

It is amazing how some people eulogize about Dr Sant following his interview last night. They take everything he said as factual and accurate. What they seem to forget is that Dr Sant cynically promised to remove VAT and to keep his promise he wrecked the economy by introducing a higher tax that was un-workable and an administration nightmare. Is that honest and trustworthy?

Most of us acknowledge (Eurobarometer stats) that we are better off being members of the EU and subsequently the Eurozone. And yet, this is the man that wanted to keep us out at all costs making claims that were ill-founded and intended only to mis-guide the gullible portion of the electorate.

Dr Sant is an honest man - of that I don't think anyone has any doubt. However, he is caught up in an idealistic world of make believe. He has unshakable solutions and has never admitted to making mistakes or listened to those around him. The human side in Dr Sant is to be admired but his leadership and management skills are poor and his reflections from the back bench have done nothing to make him understand where he goes horribly wrong!

Joe Micallef

Oct 21st 2009, 11:23

The more the person speaks the more his leadership inadequacy shines. The truth is that someone told him that he makes a good leader and from that day he believed it intensely. Then he managed Metalfond - a stark failure, then he managed the Labour Party as president - a violent lot, then he managed government - a total failure and abdication of responsibility.

His great problem is that he never factors in his own mammoth mistakes....but then again the mistake is attributable to that person who told him he makes a good leader!

A Galea

Oct 21st 2009, 11:19

@ Mary Gauci: Did he tell lies? No! Did he took political advantage about it like EFA did with Raymond Caurana? No! Enough said I think!

E Gatt

Oct 21st 2009, 11:17

Like everyone else, Dr Alfred Sant has his good and bad points, and again this depends every individual’s point of view.

Dr Sant is an exceptionally good fiction writer and this probably affects the visions he had for Malta. He removed VAT and replaced it with CET that did not work. His biggest political legacy is that he froze Malta’s EU application with the disastrous consequences that we would have suffered for the rest of our lives. Having said that he was honest that this is the road he wanted us to take. He didn’t pretend or act like a fake. Compared to Dr Alfred Sant, his successors seem nicer but less genuine, ready to put on an act as the perfect Europeans when they seemed more real when they were anti-EU.

Could it be that PL is becoming Plastic Labour?

Jay Spearing

Oct 21st 2009, 11:14

@Giovann Fenech: And clearly reading it-Torca, l-Orizzont and watching ONE News (or should i say SKY News after the October Re-branding) will help you go along way into forgetting the past and think in terms of what's best for Malta's future! Pathetic!

Mary Gauci

Oct 21st 2009, 11:12

@ all who described him as honest, please read this bit from today's printed Times -

"A spokesman for Gunner Psaila's family yesterday evening insisted the remark was "totally untrue and utterly insensitive" because the young man's mother was currently in hospital recovering from a major operation.

"Matthew joined the army after the election and he was qualified to join in the rank of officer cadet. However, it was his choice to join as a private and work his way up the ranks," the family spokesman said."

personally, i find it shocking that he stooped to using such an example, without considering the hurt he re inflicted on the family. and certain facts can easily be checked, no? if the family are saying he joined after the election, then it is so. As a mother myself, I can never forget the sight of his weeping mother, and trying to use them so heartlessly to make a point is below words to describe it.

Giovann Fenech

Oct 21st 2009, 10:56

@ Michael Seychell
If you continue to spend your life just reading In-Nazzjon and Mument and listening to NET News, you will continue to live in the 70's and 80's and spew highly debatable, blue-tinted arguments. It's about time you start living today, forget the past and think in terms of what's best for Malta's future.

Chris Azzopardi

Oct 21st 2009, 10:54

Sadly, and much to this blessed country's demise, Alfred Sant never fit the profile of the conventional Maltese politician. His line of thought and way of doing things were too unorthodox and complex for the ordinary Joe to endorse or simply understand. He would have done great in an open minded society were corruption and dishonesty are public enemies no.1 and were the key job of the politician is to conduct politics honourably (not necessarily flawlessly-no one is perfect) without being influenced by anyone. As long as one is a respectable lawyer or doctor, a ‘practicing’ Catholic, one who never misses the local festa, Sunday mass and communion and always wears a smile in public, the odds of becoming successful in Maltese politics are high. That is how sad and superficial Maltese politics is.

John Micallef

Oct 21st 2009, 10:46

@ Domnic Fench.

That is why Labour is hiring them, as PN does not afford them anymore!

Emanuel Farrugia

Oct 21st 2009, 10:44

@ Mr. Joseph Sciberras.
I believe Dr. Alfred Sant will be very satisfed that you accept he was honest and had integrity. May I ask you to kindly explain what you think are the other virtues that are required to make a good political party leader. And what do you think convinced the people in 1996 to give the Labour Party, with Dr. Sant as leader, a runaway victory in the General Election ?

@ R. Agius, tell it to the marines ?

michael cauchi

Oct 21st 2009, 10:41

Alfred Sant better than Fenech adami !!

J.Borg

Oct 21st 2009, 10:41

@ M.Seychell

People like you, always living in the past, hinder the future of our country.....

It's about time that we the past for the historians and look ahead for the well being of our country...
People like you are always asking for apologies for the PL camp....how about turning to your party and tell GonziPN to issue an apology as well....
Hope that the PN bloggers want be writing that the PN hasn't anything to be ashamed off....that will be the joke of the year...
or is it for the convenience that PN want be issuing an apology.....we all remember the fracass of the PL clubs after the 1987 election.....did the PN do it's utmost to stop this fracass...as far as my memory gives me....NO they didn't stop it..

Dominic Fenech

Oct 21st 2009, 10:38

Mintoff manipulated? The PN must have some smart people indeed.

V. Micallef

Oct 21st 2009, 10:31

Unfortunately honesty does not win you elections. This was proved by the JPO case.

Lawrence Pisani

Oct 21st 2009, 10:16

You are a gentleman and a man of honour, Dr.Sant.

David Aquilina

Oct 21st 2009, 10:15

As usual... we have facts but we cannot make them public. That's Alfred Sant's usual excuse. We need the facts if you want us to believe you. You're not going to convince anyone by saying you have facts but you keep them to yourself. We used to do that when our priimary school teacher used to catch us without homework.

Michael Seychell

Oct 21st 2009, 10:14

If tjhe PN used the power opf incumbency during the last election, what did KMB do in 1987 when days before the election he employed on full time basis in the civil service, some 8000 workers most of them in the most irregular way.

The country is still feeling the pinch of millions of Ml;ates Lira paid as wages paid to those workers, most of whom are still on the government payroll, despite the fact that the full number of civil serbvants decreased suibstantially under the PN goverments.

One should keep im mind that very few if any, of those irregular workers left the governmewnt employment, since these were and still are mostly unskilled employees and prefer to work - or rather attend for work with the government, whileing the time away.

Would Dr Sant be gentlemen enough to condemn the power of incumbency used by KMB,
- I do not think so.

As for Mintoff being manipulated by the PN this is the joke of the day - Since Sant knows that nobody could ever ever manipulate Montoff, I add to say not even to-day that he is over 90 years old.

Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta

Ronnie Pellegrini

Oct 21st 2009, 10:06

An honest and trustworthy man. Straight forward as usual. A man who was not given the chance to impliment the changes that our country needed.

Roderick Bajada

Oct 21st 2009, 10:02

In my opinion Dr.Sant's biggest failure in politics is that he did his best to be honest. Even in matters that were sure to lose him votes, he knew this will eventually lose him votes, but still spoke his mind. Being good thoughts or bad, no difference, as long as he did what he thought was honest.

To be a successful politician you must learn from the adverts. Speak only what the people want to hear. Who cares about sideeffects?

Biggest proof of this? Look were we are now. Certainly not the Malta that GonziPN advertised for the Election.

R Agius

Oct 21st 2009, 09:47

Still lost in his own fantasy world....

Godwin Farrugia

Oct 21st 2009, 09:45

By far the BEST PRIME MINISTER MALTA NEVER HAD!!!

Joe Vella

Oct 21st 2009, 09:44

@ M. Attard

Honest man indeed. Since when Honest man blame everything under the sun and do not take responsibility of his own actions?

g.c.Forte

Oct 21st 2009, 09:42

Very well said Dr. Sant, and I wish to add that you are the person that brought true democracy in this country. Between the years 1962 to 1996 we lived in a hatred country,because you are blue or red.Families have been broken, conflicts with the church, clubs of both parties smashed, people have been hurt physically,financially and mentally again from both sides.Starting from the sixties, " the mortial sin and the involvment of the church " the seventies "the killings of two young and innocents persons" the eighties " the famous " civil disobidience and boykotts" the nineties " corruptions whitch can be touched by hand. Then in 1996 Dr. Sant went in power, and the first thing he did was, stopping the stupid thing that after any election,the clubs of the opposite side will be smashed and the people live in hell for almost a month. The second thing, ( which cost him losing the government ) was that he left all the N.G.O`s, directors, and managers in their offices even so that they were P.N. hard cores. No body can change the story, and Dr. Sant will remain the person who brought the TRUE DEMOCRACY.

Joseph Sciberras

Oct 21st 2009, 09:24

Nobody doubts Dr Sant's honesty and integrity. But those virtues alone do not automatically make him a good leader.

ray vella

Oct 21st 2009, 09:23

it seems that Dr.Sant didnt change and Mintoff should speak about the accuse Dr.Sant made.........where is the truth?

Richard Galea.

Oct 21st 2009, 09:15

No Dr. Sant.......You never really made a mistake....and if you did it was that you kept your cards too close to your chest.......You should have put down your cards on the table so that the electorate would have had some transparency to evaluate.....Mintoff's issue on the Vittoriosa project was a decoy.....apart from being a farce.

You are again doing the same mistake exactly right now by depriving the public from important facts........The People should not be treated like mushrooms!.....Dr.Sant......Kept in the dark and drowsed with crap.

Daniel Cassar

Oct 21st 2009, 09:14

How dare he tries to implicate the death of a young man with the last election. What a shame! Kindly keep him away.

PN should erect a monument to this guy. His attitude saved our country!

John Micallef

Oct 21st 2009, 09:10

Hekk ikun politikant sincier!!! Ghalkemm ikolli nghid li spicca f'halq il- Luppu ghax kien onest!!


Grazzi Alfred, PM bhalek ghandna bzonn, forsi nqablu t-truf!!

Ta lanqas ma l-ewwel xamma biss ta abuz min ministru tieghek, acetajt ir-rezenja tieghu, mhux tajtu spaltek ha jserrah fuqek.

Max Farrugia

Oct 21st 2009, 09:10

Sant ghadu qieghed ifittex skuza għal falliment tieghu fil-politika. Qieghed jara f'min sejjer iwaħħal. L-unika haga li ammetta hija li ghadu jaqbez għat-tifel tieghu fil-politika.
M. Farrugia

J/Camilleri

Oct 21st 2009, 09:07

Surely if Dr. Sant was given his chance to govern, Malta is a much better place to live in.
Debt, favours, corruption, surely would not have been the order of the day.
"is-sewwa jirbah zgur"? Missieri kien jghid: "il-hazin jirrenja dejjem".

S. Farrugia

Oct 21st 2009, 09:03

He was and still is a great and honest man. Pity that some hated him so much. And the word is hate. Especially from the PN side. He is a man to admire. Thank you Dr Sant for everything.

Charles J. Buttigieg

Oct 21st 2009, 08:43

This man is made of steel, a genuine product made of the hardest stuff. It’s a great pity that most people judge the steak just by its sizzle rather than by its taste and healthy ingredients.

John Theuma

Oct 21st 2009, 08:42

I would have expected that this article included much more of Dr Sant's interview especially where the present government's failures are concerned. And about the loyalty the Opposition party should have towards the constitution. Well, loyalty and honesty are not in the vocabulary of most people!

C Fabri

Oct 21st 2009, 08:42

Are you serious M Attard? It's never his fault but he's always the first one to point fingers at others! Do you call that honesty??!!! Why can't he accept that he failed and failed and failed many a time!

Anthony Mercieca

Oct 21st 2009, 08:32

So again the Nationalists are at blame.

In the pre 1987 era according to past and present PL leaders including the newly anointed Dr. Joseph Muscat, the violence was the result to PN provocation. This includes the burning of The Times, and attack on Dr. Fenech Adami's residence and family!!!!

We get a break of nearly 10 years and Labour gets back the government. Now we have the PM of the time Dr. Sant claiming that in 1996 it was the PN that manipulated Mintoff!!!

Such a "labourite" obsession leads to a further shipwreck!!!

Labour still cannot look straight in the face to facts and truth.

If the PN are such capacable people as the Labour Leaders seem to admit, no wonder that the Nationalists have been over 20 years in government!!!!

R Agius

Oct 21st 2009, 08:31

"Dr Sant said there were a number of facts that had not yet been made public and would justify what he saying." What is he waiting for to reveal these "facts" after 12 years ? Maybe waiting for the people concerned not to be around anymore, for right of reply ? We thought that these blank statements to provoke doubts and imagination were something of the past. If there are "facts" and one wants to prove his point, one should bring them out for clarity's sake.

Denis Catania

Oct 21st 2009, 08:24

If someone has a Maltese ID card, how long do they have to be out of the country before that ID card in no longer valid to vote in general elections ? Sant might have a point on people coming from abroad just to vote.

edgar gatt

Oct 21st 2009, 08:19

One can fault Mr. Mintoff on a number of things, but being manipulated is very hard to believe, more so by the PN. I always maintained that Alfred Sant should stick to writing books and should never have entered into politics. Let us face it, he made a real mess of his political career and messed up his party big time.

Leonard Brincat

Oct 21st 2009, 08:13

An Honest man he deserves much better.Most probbably he did not succede because he was honest.

M Attard

Oct 21st 2009, 07:50

There goes an honest man,which is more than can be said of most politicians,past and present,high and low.