I find it deplorable that the upper ranks of the country’s political class should take such partisan stands in the case of Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco (editorial entitled ‘Impeachment turns into farce’, January 28).

This is perhaps inevitable seeing that the whole saga was infused with a measure of political bias from the beginning.

That a former PN prime minister and MP moves a motion of impeachment in Parliament on the eve of a general election and before the Commission for the Administration of Justice has declared its opinion on the merits of the case is justifiably suspect of political motivation.

The Commission has now decreed that the judge “misbehaved in not following the code of ethics” it drew up and to which the judge and Antonio Mizzi (who, at the time, was magistrate but was subsequently appointed judge) had disagreed and ignored.

Both of them later came round to following the code of ethics.

The question remains as to why one should be impeached while the other was promoted to judge.

In fact, ordinary sense would consider the degree of misbehaviour on the part of Farrugia Sacco as not warranting the grave parliamentary judicial process of impeachment, the call for which has truly reduced the process of impeachment to a political farce.