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Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 15:03 by

Kurt Sansone

Updated: Borg Olivier again insists Muscat made PN aware of Mistra scandal

Video: Paul Spiteri Lucas

(Adds PL's reply)

For the second day in a row, PN general secretary Paul Borg Olivier has insisted his party became aware of the Mistra scandal during the election campaign after Labour leader Joseph Muscat slipped up.

Dr Borg Olivier called an urgent press conference this afternoon to point out what PN MEP Simon Busuttil was reported saying to a newspaper today.

Dr Busuttil was quoted saying that Dr Muscat, at the time still an MEP, had given him strong enough hints during a discussion on a flight to Brussels.

No new information was given at the press conference and Dr Borg Olivier once again refused to say whether then Labour leader Alfred Sant was right when he alleged corruption on the Mistra scandal.

“This press conference is not about the Mistra case but intended to unmask Joseph Muscat’s deceit,” he said adding the Labour Party was now suggesting it was PN officials who had informed it of the Mistra contract.

Dr Borg Olivier insisted the PN had passed political judgement on the case soon after the election when the Prime Minister said this was reflected in the choice of cabinet.

He skirted the question as to whether the party should be thanking Dr Muscat for disclosing the Labour Party’s electoral strategy.

CHILD'S PLAY - PL

In a statement, the PL said a spokesman for Dr Muscat had already denied the claims being made by Dr Borg Olivier.

What Dr Borg Olivier was doing was child's play and it was clear that Dr Busuttil was getting mixed in all this to join the list of those who had ulterior motives.

Dr Muscat and the PL were not interested in such nonesense, the PL said.

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Francis Saliba M.D.

Jul 27th 2012, 12:24

@ Eddy Privitera, today at 11:00

Dr Simon Busuttil has made it quite clear that the information disclosed to him by Joseph Muscat during that flight to Brussels was more than enough for him to conclude that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando was the target of the MLP. The are intelligent people who can put two and two together and obtain the right answer.

Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 17:33

Francis: Not True ! GonziPN knew about JPO's deal on his Mistra land , so much so, that just a hint about a case of corruption without any name os what the case involved, was enough for GonziPN to know who was the candidate involved ! In fact JPO stated that the informatyion about the contract was passed to the PL by an insider of GonziPN with the aim to blame JPO in case of an electoral defeat !

Francis Saliba M.D.

Jul 26th 2012, 19:16

@ Eddy Privitera, today at 17:33.

JPO does not provide any evidence to support his contention. If your eyes were not incorrigibly blinkered, you would insist on such proof when dealing with someone who was called politically and morally corrupt by a former prime minister and leader of your own MLP and in connection with this same Mistragate scandal.

Francis Saliba M.D.

Jul 27th 2012, 09:30

@ Eddy Privitera, yesterday at 17:33.

Many Labourite commenters do not know what “spin” implies. It means propaganda material manipulated and tainted with falsehood. Dr Paul Borg Olivier’s account is factual. The LP diehards’ version is not – it is based on falsehoods.

Joseph Muscat only gave hints to Simon Busuttil from which the latter concluded that the unnamed NP candidate who was going to be targeted in a possible smear campaign on the eve of the election was Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. That is not the same as the Nationalist Party knowing in advance the contents of a contract, signed by JPO, in Alfred Sant's possession and that Alfred Sant revealed only in the last moments before the election date.

That is the spin, the propaganda lie, and it is not Dr Paul Borg Olivier who is trying to spread it. It is people like you.

Emanuel Farrugia

Jul 26th 2012, 17:17

Joseph Cauchi Senior

Today, 13:09

Now we all know who the source of this revelation is!

However, Joseph Muscat now must answer some questions.

1) Why did he have to reveal such a ‘secret’ to Simon Busuttil ?
What proof have you got that Mr. Simon Busuttil is telling the truth !
) Who gained politically from JM’s revelation, the PN or MLP?
If it's the truth, the PN slightly by about 1, 500 votes !
3) Did this revelation help Alfred Sant’s strategy in attacking Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando?
No effect really. Alfred Sant has a mind of his own. He walked out of PBS !
4) Did this revelation make the MLP more winnable in the 2008 elections?
Stupid question. JPO is a good actor !
5) Who did gain personally politically from such a revelation, Alfred Sant or Joseph Muscat?
Stupid question. Alfred Sant decided on his own to retire from Leader of the MLP. Joseph Muscat did
not know he would win the contest for Leadership !
6) Today, in 2012, who is in a better political position with the MLP, Alfred Sant or Joseph Muscat?
Stupid question. Please read the reply for question No.5.
7) … (more to come later)…

Waiting for answers!

Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 17:35

Joseph Cauchi: What are dreaming about ? Dr. Muscat surely had no idea that Labour was going to lose the election. Let alone that he would then run for the leadership !! What a stupid comment !!!

Joe Smith

Jul 26th 2012, 11:59

@Joseph Cauchi Senior

This proves that Simon Busuttil TALKS too much!!! Can't you realize that this is the worst foul Simon Busuttil has ever done yet in his story of politics!!! He is now no longer credible!

AND THIS IS YOUR NEW PROJECTED LEADER!!!!!!!! CONGRUTS!!!!!

Jidher li Simon Busuttil ragel fuq l-irgiel ehhh!!!!

Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 12:01

Joseph Cauchi Senior: Mela ghalfejn il-hin kollu tistaqsu lil Joseph Muscat biex jghidilkhom x'se jaghmel u kif u come ?! Biex imbaghad tibdew tghidu li kixef il-pjani tal-PL u b'hekk taghkhom vantagg ????

mela issa aktar minn qabel Dr. MUscat m'ghandu jghid xejn aktar qabel ma jhabbar l-elezzjoni Gonzi !!!!!

Joseph Cauchi Senior

Jul 26th 2012, 11:26

If Simon Busuttil did not inform his party superiors about what he had heard from Joseph Muscat, then Simon Busuttil would be in COLLUSION with a member of the opposing party!

Simon Busuttil did the right thing to inform his party; while Joseph Muscat did the wrong thing by talking too much!

No wonder they are now calling Joseph Muscat as a BIG MOUTH!

JC.

George Azzopardi

Jul 26th 2012, 11:52

Mr.Cauchi

You are calling JM a big mouth when it is crystal clear that Simon Busuttil was the big mouth in this forced and pitiful story that your party is trying to create!!! The story should be about a BIG scandal which your part, GonziPN, defended back in 2008 and is trying bring out again as if it was PL's fault.

isma minni ghalqu halqkom ghax qed taqu izjed ghac-cajt!!!

Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 12:08

jOSEPH cAUCH sENIOR: what did Dr. Muscat tell Simon Busuttil ????? Did he mention JPO or Mistra ??????

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 26th 2012, 08:27

Xux deMartino. Socialists and Communists believe they have the divine right to judgement - that is a reason why they fiddle with courts the world over.

Colin Camilleri

Jul 26th 2012, 08:45

Because PBO is caught lying even on TV. He is on record for that.

William Caligari

Jul 26th 2012, 09:31

Possibli Giov, ghandek esperjenza bhal dik, ma tindunax min qed
jghid il-verita?

Staqsi lil haddiema ta' l'Air Malta, Selmun Palace, Sea Malta, etc,
hemm bzonn inkompli Sur Giov.????

Mario Camilleri

Jul 26th 2012, 12:04

@ Giov DeMartino,

Surely not the PN because back in 2008 they accused Sant on allegations and false statements, and now they're diverting the issue onto JM. So since the PN now are involving JM in the Mistragate, it's obvious and crystal clear that Alfred Sant was telling the truth all along while JPO and the PN lot were lying. The issue is that back in 2008 the PN backed JPO all the way while setting up a strategy to defy Alfred Sant. Now the same PN is against JPO and exposed him in regards to the Mistragate.

The most important aspect of all this is the fact that how ever the Mistargate was revealed, the Mistra valley was going to suffer from a good deal of irreparable physical harm.

Emanuel Farrugia

Jul 26th 2012, 16:55

For ONCE you are right Demartino, ONLY God knows who is telling the truth. And waiting for the last judgement will be too late.

George Azzopardi

Jul 26th 2012, 10:26

Correct .. I believe everyone is noticing that GonziPN strategy is trying to throw their own rubbish towards PL!!!!

Mr Stephen Borg

Jul 25th 2012, 22:03

Are you serious? What success was derived in the last twenty five years because the only thing the current administration excelled in was ho to increase the national depth to astronomical levels and in the meantime have nothing to show where these money have been spent. Now you will surely tell us all about Mater-Dei, the airport and the roads but in substance you can appreciate that what was done does not amount to in access of six billion euros in depth.

David Magro

Jul 26th 2012, 09:21

Mario, a simple question I`m going to ask you...who was behind the Mistra case? Who did the coaching? Who stated that Dr.Sant was throwing mud at JPO? Iz-zejt tela f`wicc l-ilma Mr.Cassar...ma tithajjarx tghid li il-PL hu korrott hux ukoll?

G Pace

Jul 25th 2012, 22:57

Well said Miss aquilina

Victor Laiviera

Jul 25th 2012, 20:41

You mean PBO?

He is, isn't he?

R Abela

Jul 25th 2012, 20:35

Explain to us what evidence does Sm has to show us? His word? this will end up like the U TURN he did on ACTA.

N Chetcuti

Jul 26th 2012, 00:16

We've all heard what simon had to say about hunting before the referendum. Let the hunters tell you what they think today of simon's words of wisdom.

Anthony Saliba

Jul 25th 2012, 20:14

I don’t think Muscat is so stupid to go and open up to the ‘enemy’. If this is the case, then rightly so Mr. Sciberras, God forbid he becomes PM.

It is more likely, however, that Muscat did this with some intention in mind.

If the latter is found to be the case, then Muscat’s own admission that he wants to become the youngest PM ever may have to be taken in new light. It appears from what we read that Muscat’s fixation with becoming Malta’s youngest PM stops at nothing.

We already heard this from Dr. Adrian Vassallo when he said that Muscat’s only aim is to win the election, thus becoming PM, “u imbaghad naraw”.

It may also very well be that Muscat hinted on the Mistra case to undermine his own leader (Dr. Sant) by exposing the only card he had left to win the 2008 election.

The rest is history: Labour lost the 2008 election because they failed to take the PN by surprise, Alfred Sant resigned, Muscat became Labour’s new leader and is currently in the run up to become PM.


Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 13:03

Anthony Saliba. Tista tghidilna x'qal Dr. Muscat lil Simon Busuttil ??? S'issa kull ma qrajna kien li Dr. Muscat ta' " indikazzjoni" li l-PL kien se jikxef kaz ta' korruzzjoni ta' kandidat ta' GonziPN ! B'daqsekk ma semma ebda isem jew hjiel x'kien il-kaz. Mela jekk Simon Busuttil u Joe Saliba setghi indunaw ghal min kien qieghed jirreferi Dr. Muscat, MELA BILFORS KIENU DIGA JAFU BIL-KAZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mela mhux kif qeghdin jippruvaw jghatu l-impressjoni li strategisti ta' GonziPN li kien Dr. Muscat li kiexef il-kaz maghhom !!! IPOKRITI !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eddy Privitera

Jul 26th 2012, 13:05

Joseph Cauch: JPO DIGA QAL LI IL-PL KIEN IRCIEVA L-INFORMAZZJONI MINN SORS TA' GONZIPN !!!!!!

J Busuttil

Jul 25th 2012, 19:15

@ James Camilleri

One thing is cristal clear - Alfred Sant was depicted as a liar and he was not.

Agreed if you say so but Joseph Muscat is, the so called future prime minister.

R Abela

Jul 25th 2012, 20:26

yes mr busittil
and Gonzipn will soon be the EX prime minister.

Angus Black

Jul 26th 2012, 00:02

Malta is moving ahead anyway, Mr Brincat, while Joseph is sipping wine in Asti.

Paul Sammut

Jul 25th 2012, 19:24

That is what its going to be like they have nothing better to do or say after all even if they say who is going to believe them after all these years in power and they still did not do what they promised years ago.
One thing is for sure that Gonzi pn will always be remembered for destroying Malta.
And who is acting like a dictator today remember that is what they use to call Dom Mintoff so what should Gonzi be called today no one and i mean no one ever was in the situation Gonzi is today and yet he keeps hanging on and he has the face to tell us that its all in the interest of Malta.

G Tonna

Jul 25th 2012, 19:53

Malta has never seen such high level of employment and all this thanks to the politics of the Nationalists. Do you recall the unemployment under labour governments and the pioneer labour camps? What with the GDP reaching record levels of performance in an oper market under this government. In labour's days it was an inward looking economy, with import substitution and a whole mess with the array of parastatal companies producing poor products. And what about FDIs and investment in general. Malta has had an unprecented record of investment thanks to the wise decision of the Nationalist government when Malta joined the EU. If it was for labour we would still be out of the EU in some pseudo formula called Swizerland in the Meditterranean. Just remember that in labour's days FDI s dried up and the little Malta got was from companies who wanted to squeeze the cheap labour Mintoff had to offer.

Christopher Vella

Jul 25th 2012, 21:53

@ G Tonna
It was an inward looking economy you say; perhaps because we had nothing and labour gave Malta its economic foundations, gave Malta what it was by right hers and what the British bullied GBO into accepting peanuts in cash for. True, after 16 years the politics and policies had to move forward and change to more ‘outward looking’. But enough of the past, let’s look at the present – after all I couldn’t care much for what Mintoff did (in the sense that Mintoff’s political career has long expired and therefore he is out of the scene). You say GDP; would you care to have a look at Deficit? Even without the parastatal companies figures, it stands at 75% (should have been 68% according to the illustrious Tonio miss-by-a-few-miles-all-the-time Fenech). What use is increasing GDP when you grossly and constantly over-spend in this manner? What unprecedented record of investment? Are you by any chance referring to the fossilised manufacturing sector just to mention one? Regarding the EU application, if we didn’t join, we wouldn’t be paying for the collapse of the major countries – Italy, Spain, France Portugal, Ireland and the no secret Greece. The common people do not seem very impressed currently with how the EU monster developed; only the guys in-charge (read the guys currently milking the cash cow) seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel. As for the cheap labour Mintoff had to offer; just look at China – everyone seems to be opening their factories there because of ‘cheap’ labour. That is why it is currently the world’s 2nd strongest economy.

G Tonna

Jul 26th 2012, 14:06

Christopher, you may not care about MIntoff now because you may think he is harmless in the state he is in, but clearly I am referring to his legacy which the labour party so strongly inherited and which it is struggling in vain to have us forget. As far as we know the Labour party is still on the socialist path of doing politics and has not renounced the evil ethics of socialism. Labour has not told us what it stands for until this very day, four years with Joseph Muscat at the helm of the party.
Maybe Joseph should tell us whether he would be pulling Malta out of the EU or the Euro if the economy does not perform well should labour be voted in office. Would Malta return to the labour corps of the seventies and eighties should unemployment pick up. You know, business confidence is traditionally fearful of labour because they never know what to expect and their past history in the Maltese economy is disastrous to put it mildy.
I would hope that Labour is not thinking of copying the Chinese model you so enthusiastically quoted. You may want to have a look at the working conditions of the chinese factories before we elaborate further on the subject.
The continuous series of PN victories over the last 30 years are not a coincidence. The Maltese voter has come to realise which party can deliver the best goods and results for this country.

G Tonna

Jul 25th 2012, 20:03

Mark... The Nationalist were on the receiving end and clearly it was Labour who was out to inflict damage to the PN in the election run up. The PN strategy was clearly to limit the damage and possibly fight it back. It did this gracefully and successfully judging by the election results. Victory would have been wider had it not been for this incident. But remember that the odds in 2008 were against the PN being relected for the 3rd consecutive time...unprecendented in Maltese political history.

Gonzi is a very good leader and an excellent statesman. There is no need to change a winning horse.

Doreen Attard

Jul 25th 2012, 18:31

"......it doesn't say much about JM's maturity..............."
Mr Joseph E Briffa, your post doesn't say much about your maturity !!! How come you believe these things ? These people have been lying through their teeth for more than 4 years now, how can you believe them ?

Toni Botta

Jul 25th 2012, 18:22

Very well said.....also it shows what type of person he really is, give him the chance and he back stab you. this should be a lesson learned for all the maltese people ........all these promises are all in vain. as once he's in goverment he'll be playing a diffrent tune to all of us.

then it will be all about recovering the economy and slashing students stippends etc, its all a deja vu coming back to us (1996 - AS). We're all aware of the promises made by AS. which in some instance he kept like the cash registers and the VAT etc but cost our country millions in loses which we're still paying up forl now.

we are aware that the PN goverment made a lot of promises before the election, which some were not kept but we're still doing better then most elite countries in the EU. comes next election i'll be voting first PN and second AD, with the hope that if labour wins the next general election AD would have the power to form a coalition with the PN party and put a stop to JM mess.

Eddy Privitera

Jul 25th 2012, 18:38

G.Tonna- The last Labour government was the 1996 one lead by Dr. Alfred Sant, the most democratic government we ever had ! Why do you and other GonziPN apologists keep missing this fact ???

Mintoff's legacy is found in the WELFARE STATE from which you and your family have benefitted so much !!!!!

W Cassar

Jul 25th 2012, 18:59

@ G Tonna

You can talk till you are blue in the face (Pun intended) ...but its the floaters who decide and at the moment they are not a happy bunch of people!

G Tonna

Jul 25th 2012, 19:23

W. Cassar. I don't see how you can be too sure in maltese politics, and that is precisely why you look at past performance to gauge and possibly predict what can happen in the future. It didn't look good for the PN in 2008 but there you go, the party won the election and governed a successful economy. How can you really tell or predict whats going to happen in the next election?

Paul Sammut

Jul 25th 2012, 22:07

Today news your own news unemployment up by 7.8%. and please Mr. Tonna during Mintoff years we had a lot of things that it seems you forgot to mention like the banks the malta drydocks the post Air Malta all the social benefits like the wage the children allowance bonus free medical care and all that you can think off. Its a pity you seem either to have forgotten or may be at the time you lived in outer space. Yes Gonzi pn will always be remembered for selling all we had. for all the factories that closed down for all the lost jobs for the lies to Air Malta and Selmun hotel workers for all the lies about smart city jobs for all the Bus owners and their familys.For the disaster at Mater Dei hospital and the health centers for all the taxes we have to pay for always finding an excuse to tax the workers more and more like the recent one about the V.R.T every year is this not a new tax why not fix or better build new safer roads i mean like you said all these years in power and not much was done. Can we ever trust Gonzi p.n the maltese people will soon answer you and its no use now to late no matter what Gonzi p.n tries the people are not stupid nor blind.

Mr Stephen Borg

Jul 25th 2012, 22:12

When you say successful economy, does this by the way include that we are officially in a rescission and that our national dept amounts to seventy five percent of our gross domestic product whilst that permitted by the EU is that of sixty percent. Please stop trying as the famous Maltese idiom quotes: Traqqa il-pannu bil-qara ahmar.

G Tonna

Jul 25th 2012, 18:14

You cannot expect statemanship from Joseph Muscat with this underhanded and deplorable behaviour. Politics is about unconditional love for your country and honest and loyal politics towards your colleagues but also your political adversaries.

ALBERT FENECH

Jul 25th 2012, 18:15

The British film industry came out with a series of farcical comedies all of which had a title that started with "Carry on ..." something or other. The GonziPN has now issued its own production called "Carry on making us cringe and laugh". It amazes me that a person like Dr Francis Saliba and others of his ilk have the guts to continue to persist in defending a Titanic-like organisation that has now sunk to the bottom of the ocean's very depths.

ALBERT FENECH

M Grima

Jul 25th 2012, 18:33

"Dr Muscat and the PL should be interested because such underhanded trickery is just as reprehensible as the attempted Mistra development scandal itself"

Oh really Dr. Saliba? How can you and the dazed nationalists consider this silly spin as a scoop. The real drama is how GonziPN for four long years camouflaged JPOS antics as if he was a victim, when all along Dr. Sant was right.

You know what Dr. Saliba, Mistragate will haunt your party and will once again play a part in the demise of a political party, this time round it would be the party which represents hypocrites, GonziPN.

Eddy Privitera

Jul 25th 2012, 18:46

G. Tonna: Did you hear or read what Mr. Michael Falzon has said about Dr. Lawrence Gonzi ?? He said that Dr. Gonzi " LACKED LEADERSHIP QUALITIES " !! And you say that Dr. Gonzi is " a statesman " ??

Patrick Zammit

Jul 25th 2012, 18:49

No, Dr Saliba, it shows how GonziPN easily ignores his much flaunted "Christian values" (when it suits him) to deceitfully manipulate a bad situation into a win win situation.

Francis Saliba M.D.

Jul 25th 2012, 23:05

@ M Grima

Yes! Really, Mr Grima.

The Nationalist Party purged itself of Mistragate decisively when it condemned JPO for his treachery in conspiring with the Labour Party, after it had tolerated, patiently and with ill grace his chronic disloyalty to party and to his comrades and to PN supporters who had voted for him, and only because compelled to do so by "force majeure".

@ Patrick Zammit.
Please do not use pronouns before you clearly identify the related noun. It is impossible to decipher whose flaunted “Christian values” the PN is supposed to be “easily ignoring" “when it suits him” (who?), and who is deceitfully manipulating which “bad situation” and who should be congratulated for changing a “bad situation into a win win situation”.

Mr Stephen Borg

Jul 26th 2012, 09:33

I am in no way saying that Joseph Muscat is a saint, but when we look back at track records we would easily come to reckon that people of the likes of PBO and Simon Busuttil have more then once been caught in senseless gaffes. Simon Busuttil for instance was instrumental on the ACTA case and PBO is very famous for sending emails, a straight forward computer application to the wrong people. PN we do not believe you any more, sorry, and you are the only ones to blame for all this.

Mr Albert Dimech

Jul 25th 2012, 17:43

Ah yes? Can you please list the others? It's a challenge!

john muscat

Jul 25th 2012, 18:03

How do you call it a blunder by JM instead of the PN's blunder when JPO was being defended instead of condemning him? That's what I call super hypocrisy dear Busuttil.

J Busuttil

Jul 25th 2012, 18:43

@ Albert Dimech

Wanting us to be an image of Cyprus
Suggesting Island to stay out of the EU
Late on various official appointments
Incident that happened on his departure to Lybia and still not answering PN's answers.
Sargas ( has not been mentioned any more)

These are that come to mind and I am sure that there are more.

Mr Albert Dimech

Jul 25th 2012, 21:28

@J Busuttil
Oh I'm impressed! And these are supposed to be blunders?
These are only stupid, childish attempts by the PN media to try to attack Dr Muscat.
If this is the best that the PN could do, well that explains why Dr Muscat is +10 ahead of Gonzi in the polls.
Just swallow the bitter pill, Dr Muscat is NOT Dr Sant. He is the hardest nut the PN will ever have to crack.
Yes, an earthquake it was, in the PN but!!

J Busuttil

Jul 25th 2012, 22:45

@ Mr.Albert Dimech

You cannot be impressed as you will definitely not hear about his blunders on the PL media who are very faithful to what they report.

About the +10 ahead same was before the last election so nothing new.

" Yes, an earthquake it was, in the PN but!! never heard of Joseph's promised earthquake on the contrary the old faces are back pulling Joseph's strings.

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 25th 2012, 16:39

Oh yes one can understand why it is boring for some!

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 25th 2012, 16:43

Come again Hobson! Who's been taken for a ride! Coming from someone who was taken for a apocalyptical ride about the Local Councils, Liberalisation, VAT, EU, EURO by none other than Joey, it comes across as precious.

[joey]

Pat Hobson

Jul 25th 2012, 18:53

@Mr. J. Micallef. Politics change, and you should know that! I wonder what you would have said if Joseph Muscat was still against them? You learn by your mistakes, and the PL has learnt from its past mistakes. But it seems that the PN doesn't learn! And this case is one of them. With all this blabbering about Mistra, the electorate being made aware how it was taken for a ride by Gonzipn and how it defended corruption at all costs to win the elections. EFA once said "Min ma jiggieledx il-korruzzjoni hu KORROTT!" I think that says it all!

The PN is a party of HYPOCRITES!

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 25th 2012, 19:20

As a sorry PL person you cannot let courts decide whether a crime has been committed or not - THAT HAS NEVER CHANGED for you lot. Joey went as far as saying that he will over rule court rulings.

As for change of mind, here we are referring to huge impact macro policies and the only change that can happen is an opportunistic one, that is Joey's style. Moreover he did not just change his mind but he was very actively involved in spinning a huge web of lies which as “makku” (ref Alfred Sant) you faithfully obliged to - although one know might now think that that was part of his plan!

I rest my case [joey]

A Trapani

Jul 25th 2012, 16:10

brian, ghax imsiefer ma jistax jirrispondi ? Lanqas kieku ghadna fi zmien il messaggi bil hamiem ghax il messag wkoll jasal f'jumejn mil Italja

Eddy Privitera

Jul 25th 2012, 16:13

George: Yes the cat is out of the bag ! We now know that GonziPN KNEW JPO was involved in a scandalous deal at Mistra. Otherwise, how could they have arrived at the conclusion that JPO was the candidate "hinted" at by Dr. Muscat, if they had no idea whatsoever about the Mistra scandal ???????

GonziPN have also confirmed that the election was STOLEN by the manipulation used by Joe Saliba and RCC through the antics of JPO when he faced Dr. Sant as a "journalist " !!!!!!

THE CHICkENS HAVE NOW COME HOME TO ROOST !

brian spiteri

Jul 25th 2012, 16:49

@ trapani

Hamiem u mhux, mhux il-kwistjoni, tghid mhux ser joqghod jirrispondi lic-cucati ta PBO waqt li qieghed ghal btala mal familja!! Izda serrah rasek u ras il- PBO li la jigi lura ser tehduha ir-risposta, u il- PBO terga ma tarahx b-ghajnejk iktar ghax imur jistahba fil kwartieri kif ghamel kemm ilu segretarju tal PN!!

robert pace

Jul 25th 2012, 17:15

ha nghidlek Sur Trapani hekk ser nispiccaw taht dan ir regime ta Gonzi bil hmara bil hamiem u tallaba siehbi!!!

M Grima

Jul 25th 2012, 17:05

Why all the euphoria George. The nationalists are in such in a state of panic that they think that such a silly story will score them some brownie points. This spin goes on the prove that Alfred Sant was right all along and GonziPN took the Maltese electorate for a ride. It is easy for you to say that this is not about Mistragate, but in fact it is. It epitomises the belief that the PN are a deceitful party which will stoop at any level if the end justifies the means. The PN have kept this story under wraps, just like they did with the secreat weekly payrise of €500, Dr. Gonzi and his cabinet gave themselves. Not only that but they continued to cover up for that little weeping puppy for four long years and now that they have discarded him, are trying to shift the attention on Dr. Muscat.

And if the story is not pathetic enough, GonziPN are pushing their secretary to the edge of ridiculousness. But, what is amazing is that some people are ecstatic with this scoop of a story.

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 25th 2012, 16:45

Something is burning Eddy Privitera!
It surely ain’t joey (who got what he planned) but probably freddy.

m. borg (slm)

Jul 25th 2012, 17:07

Fat chance Mr Micallef, even if, for argument sake, Joseph inadvertently let slip some info surely you don't believe that it was the cause of labour losing the election and that Dr Sant was back stabbed?

It is the gonzipn's strategy to try and get a wedge between Joseph and Dr Sant by making up a story about what was the cause of labours loss.

The truth is that the extra hour at the polls was the main reason.

Mr Joe Micallef

Jul 25th 2012, 18:56

Borg the only thing that's extra is you utter nonsense! As always PL in difficulty when tables are turned! The problem here is you have no Veto.

Eddy Privitera

Jul 25th 2012, 15:49

Mattie Vella: Mela Gonzi tieghek kemm ghandu aktar x'jispjega, illi wara li akkuza lil-JPO bi FRAME-UP, l.ghada mar irranga mieghu biex jibda jikkonsulta mieghu, u jitlob il-permess ta' JPO biex jghaddi l-ligijiet ??????

Toni Botta

Jul 25th 2012, 16:30

how about JM ask an appology to AS for the back stabbing, were is the loyalty from JM to his then leader.....either you people lost your mind or need profesional help.

Your all walking blind behinde a person who cost you the election by given away sensitive information during the most critical times.....then he has the face to say we have instability when he coased so much instabilty and trouble for your party.

god help us if this person ever become our nation leader, no wonder all these excuses about the state of our economy. well the fact is that if JM is elected I dont want some excusse about the state of the economy when prior to the election he'd gone around promising everything to everyone, reason for being in politics to create investment and jobs not to report on state affairs.

C BONDIN

Jul 25th 2012, 15:40

haha ogbitni din mate. kieku kieku waqa u kiser siequ habieb. Min jaf ux??. Kieku nahseb tiqafli qalbi, naqa u mmut kif nara l hames numri fuq it tv.

Neville Pace

Jul 25th 2012, 15:38

Well employment and the economy is a successful record for the pn

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