In recent months, I have commented that Marlene Farrugia will turn out to be an albatross around the Nationalist Party’s neck.

After listening to what the Nationalist ‘caretaker’ leader, Simon Busuttil, has been saying lately, I am now totally convinced the party and, particularly, its new leader, who takes over on September 16, will have two albatrosses hanging around their neck: Farrugia and Busuttil.

Farrugia has already upped her criticism of her supposed PN colleagues by rubbishing the way the leadership contest is being held. She has again made it obvious what she is after: to eventually take over the leadership, just as I predicted months ago.

Besides confirming he does not intend to give up his seat if one of the three non-MPs wins the leadership contest, Busuttil has already set the policy the new leader should follow, namely “to fight the Labour government” in the same extremely negative way he has done and which resulted in a second, historical defeat for the PN.

So I am not at all surprised by what Frank Portelli, one of the four PN contestants for the leadership, has revealed on Net TV. He said that a public opinion survey conducted these last few days shows that, if an election were held today, Labour would win it with a 50,000-vote majority. No one has challenged Portelli to prove his claim.

So I assume that even Busuttil and his PN advisers know it.

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