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It is rather amusing to read how Dr Simon Busuttil (of independent MIC fame) transforms into the partisan Simon Busuttil who strives for the PN (of parochial fame) to obtain three seats in the EUP elections (interview, MaltaToday 11 April). Here then is yet another typical example of how bipartisanism still asserts itself in all its petty-minded glory, adorned with the likes of men of assumed stature...priests, philosophers and professionals of sorts transforming into visionaries and statesmen dictating to one and all what is best! As things stand, I dread to imagine the vain-glory that would reign if either party gets the three seats it seeks from this election.
Funny how MIC has not succeeded in showing us that politics in Europe is now done with an eye on the development of the individual, the citizen of Europe. Surely the Maltese will, sooner or later, realise that politics in Europe is no longer about protectionism, and that maintaining the status of monolithic ideologies designed according to certain exclusivist principles (such as religio et patria) has become ridiculous. It never fails to stun me how some persist in thinking and acting as though our country with all its institutions, is theirs by some right or other. Here then is the proliferation of that widespread mentality, that arrogance that has seeped through and through into the very core of the two dinosaur parties that for a century or so have held our dear island to ransom. As for harping on Christian Democratic values, well this makes me laugh out very loudly especially when I decide to take a closer look at both the party that Dr Busuttil now represents and its counterpart, the MLP in shambles.
Here then is the intelligent voter’s first chance to start to resolve this impasse. The only way to send a clear message right into the heart of that arrogance of power next June, is to vote for Prof Arnold Cassola of Alternattiva Demokratika - The Green Party.
Dr Michael Zammit
Lija
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