These days Labour billboards are trying to persuade us that Lawrence Gonzi is clinging to power. This is just cheap propaganda based on anything but the truth.
The Nationalist Party, led by Dr Gonzi, won the 2008 general election and since then the government has not been defeated in Parliament. So Dr Gonzi is only serving the country as its legitimate prime minister.
I am sure that if the government is defeated in Parliament he will go straight to the President, tender his resignation and call a general election. But in Malta we have a glaring example of clinging to power. In the 1981 general election the PN received 114,132 votes and the Malta Labour Party 109,990.
But by some ‘curious’ juggling of the electoral districts, Labour won 34 seats to the Nationalists’ 31.Labour chose to cling to power for over five years against the will of the majority. It was definitely a politically and morally incorrect show of opportunism. Even Labour leader Joseph Muscat agrees with me!