The best TV series ever made, to my mind, was "The West Wing", the story of two terms of an American President and his team. Tight writing, a fast pace and a nod towards reality made it excellent viewing, and a boxed-set to return to when there's dross on the box.
POTUS, however, has a Constitutional role that renders him a player in the nation's politics and on its political stage. In this, he is unlike Her Majesty, who acts as the (figure)Head of the State without much political power, for all that there are residual powers that are of significance in limited circumstances.
His Excellency, our President, is on a par with HM in this context, though unlike Her Maj, he has the advantage of a written Constitution to chart him through the highways and byways of the law, to which his Office is subject along with the rest of us.
A central tenet of the Constitution is that the President, in the exercise of his powers and functions, shall act on the advice of the Government, except in very limited, delineated, circumstances.
Conventionally, Her Maj acts this way, here HE is statutorily enjoined to do so.The grant of a Presidential Pardon is not one of the circumstances where the President acts at his own discretion: his decisions are taken for him by whichever Department of the Executive advises him on the matter. "Advises" is a polite way of saying "directs", of course.
Consequently, fulsome comments about "the People's President" and how lucky we are to have a humane man to make these decisions are entirely out of place. This is not to say that Dr Abela is anything but a humane man or that his heart is not in the best of places, just that any humanity displayed in the case of the jailed mommy was not his.
Equally out of place are comments about how he should be confirmed in Office for more terms, because we need someone like him at the helm. This country has at its helm its elected Prime Minister and there's an end to it, that's the way it works.Any other means of Government is not in accordance with our Constitution and I, for one, would prefer not to monkey around with it, even on relatively insignificant issues such as Presidential Pardons.
We can leave "People's Princesses" to Bambi Blair and his sort of wooly thinking.