Much has been said and written about wardens dishing out tickets like confetti.

A few days ago, in Valletta, I noticed two wardens working together slapping tickets under windscreen wipers.

However, I noticed that they had completely ignored two Italian and one Libyan registered cars, all three of which had been very badly parked all morning, one on double yellow lines, one diagonally on a corner and the third blocking a road.

On confronting the wardens regarding this discrimination, I was told “they are not in the system, so we cannot issue a ticket”.

Surely the illegally parked cars could have been clamped. No wonder these drivers simply parked illegally: they obviously know that they will get away with it. Some animals are more equal than others, but penalising locals while rewarding foreign registered cars takes the proverbial biscuit.

Can the Ministry of Transport please take action to plug this anomaly? Are wardens authorised to clamp such vehicles? If not, why?

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