I fully endorse President Emeritus Eddie Fenech Adami’s opinion about the vote in Parliament. MPs should be free to decide on divorce legislation according to their conscience. And reason tells me that, based on the principle of consistency, even the Yes movement should endorse this stand.

Let’s go back a few weeks, before the referendum question was about to be debated in Parliament. The Prime Minister had suggested that Parliament should first discuss the Private Members’ Bill.

The Yes movement was soon up in arms because the Prime Minister said that if the Bill were to be defeated in Parliament, then no referendum would be held. The Yes campaigners said that either way, they would not go for less than two decisions, one by the MPs and one by the people. Hence they were envisaging a scenario of two different results.

So how come now, all they want is that MPs rubberstamp the people’s decision? If they wanted two decisions, which could have been different, consistency demands that they should want the same now and not pressure the MPs to vote yes or abstain.

After all nothing has changed, just the order of events.