The long-awaited return of Marlene Farrugia to her first political love has finally arrived when she posted on Facebook “I’m the ‘thug enough to protect, mature enough to step up’ part, Dr Simon Busuttil is the rest”. But perhaps the most important words she posted are in an ecard, reading: “We can teach him anything he doesn’t yet know”.

It is already humiliating for Dr Busuttil and the PN that this announcement was made by Dr Farrugia when officially the agreement between the two has not yet been signed.

But even more humiliating are the words used by Dr Farrugia. In other words, the leader of the Democratic Party has made it clear to all PN supporters that she considers herself more mature and intelligent than Dr Busuttil, when she said “We (meaning she) can teach him anything he doesn’t know yet”.

It has now emerged that the ‘informal’ discussions with Dr Farrugia were carried out solely by Dr Busuttil. And neither the PN’s deputy leaders nor the PN commission responsible to vet electoral candidates were involved. This is a repetition of Salvu Mallia’s candidature.

In a letter in The Sunday Times of Malta of March 19 (‘Marlene Farrugia wants to be PN leader’) I wrote that I believed Dr Farrugia’s aim is to take over the leadership of the PN when Dr Busuttil is removed.

I also said that she had used Labour in order to get a seat in Parliament. That is why I strongly believe that her ‘political marriage’ to Dr Busuttil is one of convenience more than conviction – in order to satisfy her desperate ambition  to take over the leadership of the party which will  give her a chance to become Malta’s first female prime minister.