Speaking on Dissett, the leader of the Opposition again reiterated that if he was ever prime minister, he would purchase energy wherever he found the cheapest price, thus not respecting contracts entered into by this government with Electrogas.

This is something which even his former colleague in the PN’s executive council, ex-PN minister Michael Falzon, rubbished very recently.

Let us for the moment believe that Simon Busuttil will one day become prime minister. And finds that the cheapest price is, say, 8c instead of 9.6c per unit.

Will he sign a contract for just one month, two, three months? Or will he sign a contract for, say, three years in order to have some semblance of stability in the energy sector?

If he signs a three-year contract but after one year another source can offer it at 7c cents per unit, would Busuttil tear up the three-year contract and sign another instead at the cheaper price?

I am convinced that Busuttil is coming out with such banal arguments because, while he knows that what he is saying is not possible in any democratic country where incoming governments are bound by the agreements and contracts entered into by the outgoing government, he hopes that there will be enough voters who believe him.

This might substantially reduce the gap between the major parties, enough for PN delegates to allow him to stay on as party leader after 2018.

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