I have been reading President Emeritus Guido de Marco's autobiography, The Politics of Persuasion. At best, it can be described as a résumé of an interesting voyage through the life of a personality who was in the thick of the action; at worst, it is a poor attempt to lend a helping hand to the incompetent and irresponsible PN government.

In fact, Prof. de Marco sustains the PN propaganda machine's demonising various MLP exponents and supporters, while failing to acknowledge the many successes of MLP governments, such as ensuring better social justice, the introduction of children's allowances, old age and widows' pensions, and free education.

Instead, Prof. de Marco emphasises that the MLP brought only havoc and turmoil, while failing again to mention anything about the violence against Labour supporters and the promotions granted to various police officers after 1987, who had been accused of beating up PN supporters prior to 1987.

Nor did he mention the institution of the Injustices Tribunal, set up by then Prime Minister Alfred Sant, which investigated hundreds of cases and found the PN government guilty in many of them, the grave injustices and discrimination perpetrated in these past two decades, against Labour-leaning workers.

Prof. de Marco stressed that when he became President he had to understand that now he belonged to all the people and no more to the party. Unfortunately, the biased and partisan de Marco is omnipresent in this publication.