Democracy in Malta has been reduced to a ping-pong ball game between the political leaders and their friends.

I am a former police sergeant. I was dismissed from the force under the Nationalist administration, apart from going through three frame-ups. I was given a conditional discharge by the court but also appeared before the Public Service Commission.

The PSC was wrong in ordering my dismissal because the court’s decision should prevail. There were cases of members of the force who were given a suspended jail sentence by the courts but were not dismissed by the PSC.

A suspended sentence will feature in one’s police conduct while a conditional discharge does not, thus, I have a clean conduct.

An officer who left the force and had a suspended sentence was reinstated under this administration.

I have been trying to make my case with this government for the past four years. I am morally convinced there was something untoward when my case was heard by the grievance unit. I had been assured verbally I had won the case.

I have unsuccessfully tried to make an appointment with the Prime Minister.

Perhaps Malta belongs to a ‘clique’, which does not defend democracy the way I have done. I was part of the police team that had conducted a search in the National Party headquarters in the 1980s.

The Prime Minister said he was addressing the injustices made under the PN government. He also said his hand of friendship would remain extended but his colleagues at Castille refuse to extend a sincere hand of friendship to a Labour supporter. I am proud to be a supporter of the Malta Labour Party but if matters remain unchanged I will not vote for Labour again.