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Last Sunday’s MaltaToday published an interview with PN European Parliament candidate Michael Falzon.
In it he argued that, since the likelihood of the hunters’ own candidate being elected is remote, it will be the PN MEP’s who will seek to preserve the derogation obtained for the retention of spring hunting, and I must presume all that goes with that derogation eg hunting at sea etc.
In view of Mr Falzon’s damaging yet unequivocal statement that “Hunters can get what they want only through the election of PN MEP’s,” it is not unreasonable to conclude that the PN is still bent on a policy of appeasement where hunting is concerned in an effort to garner votes.
Given this scenario, and in the absence of a denial from the PN leadership that this is their policy regarding the hunting issue, I for one, and I suspect many thousands of others who are not against hunting per se, but are disgusted at the continued massacre of marsh harriers, bee eaters, swans, swallows and indeed anything that flies, will have serious reservations before voting for any of the PN candidates in the forthcoming election of MP’s to the European Parliament.
Mr Falzon conceded that it is Alternattiva Demokratika’s policy to remove this derogation. If this was intended to lure votes away from Alternattiva’s candidate Arnold Cassola, it may well have misfired. He will get my vote.
John Ripard
Madliena
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