PN’s legacies threatened – Adrian Delia
When Prime Minister George Borg Olivier signed the instruments of independence, which sealed Malta’s sovereignty 56 years ago, a little nation at the centre of the Mediterranean finally become a nation state.
It was the first time Malta had wrestled its own destiny from the hands of colonial powers that for the entirety of recorded history ruled this island.
On Independence Day in 1964, Borg Olivier was conferred the Degree of Doctor Literature (Honoris Causa) by the Royal University of Malta. Fifty-five years later, in 2019, another prime minister, Joseph Muscat, was named the ‘Man of the Year in Organised Crime and Corruption’. What a contrast!
This is the struggle Malta is facing, brought about by her so-called nationals who betrayed all those who elected them to power in 2013 with the slogan ‘Malta Tagħna Lkoll’. Hardly had the ink of the results dried up that they embarked with a pre-planned programme to siphon off millions of euros in their Panama accounts. Corruption became the order of the day and, without any exception, all projects they commissioned were smeared with corruption.
The PN legacies which put Malta on the international spectrum are now threatened and we are...