Lino Spiteri affirms in his article ‘Political climate warming up’ (The Sunday Times of Malta, April 6) “that is what the Nationalists were showing [constant negativity]”.

How can anyone make such wild claims about an Opposition that voted in favour of 21 out of 25 laws enacted in this Parliament? Is an Opposition successfully proposing two private Bills in one year constantly negative? Was the Opposition being negative when it voted for a President coming from a rival party, a first in local politics, even though it is being treated so shabbily by an arrogant Prime Minister?

Spiteri patronisingly states that the Nationalists couldn’t do otherwise. Had he not opposed Ċensu Tabone and Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, two eminently suitable candidates for the presidency?

What can we say about various Labour Oppositions and governments of which Spiteri was a leading member? In Opposition, Labour constantly opposed, as was its right, and in government (pre-1987) presided over a climate of violence.

How does Spiteri find it so easy to pontificate from his supposedly high moral ground when he agreed to be part of a government for five- and-a-half years which the absolute majority of the electorate had voted against?

What cheek!