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Though serving Malta’s interests might appear to be the battle cry of the majority of Malta’s exponents to the European Union Parliament, in reality this is obviously not the case.
If, for instance, we analyse the situation relating to the eight prospective candidates on behalf of the Nationalist Party, all of them handpicked by the top brass of the Nats, none of them would appear to have a voice which is not pre-approved by the leadership of the Nationalist Party. Time and again, what all these candidates have been saying along with the leader of their party is that they are the best team because they are consistent and because they will form part of the largest parliamentary group within the European parliament.
Hence, we obviously here have an admission, an admission which has been repeated again and again, that the Nationalist party is not sending any candidates which the electorate might approve to Brussels in the interests of Malta but exclusively in the interest of the Nationalist Party and particularly in the interests of the inner circle of circles of circles with in the same Nationalist Party.
This, apart from the fact that many of the objectives of the Popular Party within the European Parliament are objectives on which the Nationalist Party here in Malta is not even willing to comment upon publicly. I am referring here to such issues as those relating to divorce, the decriminalisation of abortion, the rights of persons cohabitating and gay rights. The elimination of discrimination among children born in and/or out of wedlock, matters that relate to single parents, the concept of social assistance and the welfare state, and - naturally - the issue relating to euthanasia.
The Nationalist Party, because of its hypocritical stance before the Maltese electorate, has never had the guts to speak its minds on such intimate, private and personal issues which relate to the very concept of the smallest democracy, namely the pluralistic and cosmopolitan definition of family. The family is a subject that the Nationalist Party so often boasts about, but in reality has never had the guts to relate to the basic fundamental rights which in the rest of the European Union are literally taken for granted.
This is where my Party, Alpha, which has gone back to the roots of classical democracy that is being fast eroded in my country through the manipulative and autocratic concept of partitocracy and privileges, has expressed itself in the most clear of ways on these issues. Alpha respects the maturity and intelligence of the Maltese and Gozitan electorate to be able to evaluate for itself whether such basic rights should become amenable to one and all in this country when Malta is no longer an isolated small place of four hundred thousand inhabitants, but an integral part of a five hundred million population in the European Union.
It is for this reason and many others that Alpha is the ideal party, unshackled from any close contacts with influential local institutions, to represent Malta and the Maltese and Gozitans in a European Union with our motto of: ‘One team, one belief and one focus.’
The Nationalist Party and its eight prospective candidates have been consistent in their inconsistency throughout their current election campaign. The PN candidates state one thing one moment and the very next moment, when they discover that they have been found to be stating an inaccurate fact, they then state a different version to what they would have originally uttered.
For instance, they attempted to wage a war relating to the five seats that Malta will have in the European Union Parliament out of the approximately seven hundred seats that are available. When it became evident that their pretentious would definitely prove futile, they altered their stance by stating that when compared to Germany, pro capita Malta would indeed have more representatives in the European Union Parliament!
Another issue is related to the Christian values of Europe (observe, not anymore Catholic values relating to Malta). Even with regards to this concept the Nationalist Party has already changed its song on the issue by implying that it is in the interest of Malta to sign the EU Constitution in mid-June rather that put up some form of opposition to it. It is a well known fact that my Party, Alpha, has consistently argued that it is in the interest of Malta and it’s pluralistic and cosmopolitan people, and citizens within a European Union, to eliminate all forms of references to religion in a Constitution so that each person feels free to adhere to whichever faith he or she wishes to relate to. Religion is a personal matter and relationships between individuals and God should not be interfered with by any politicians.
Indeed, the only field that the Nationalist Party has sought fit to keep consistently adhering too is the shield of the Popular Party in the European Union which gradually is proving to be their downfall for many reasons some of which I related to earlier on in this article.
Other political parties
In so far as the Malta Labour Party candidates are concerned, another eight of them, these are also falling into the political trap of local petty politics forgetting every time they counter the Nationalist Party Candidates that this is an election for a European Parliament of which the five Malta representatives will form part of a Parliament of approximately seven hundred and twenty-three members.
Again, the MLP candidates are now pronouncing themselves with the Socialist Group, while Alternattiva Demokratika is stating that it will be opting for the Greens’ Political Grouping.
This, therefore, would show a fallacious tendency in that the three political parties do not really have the interests of Malta within the European Union at heart, because they are admitting officially that they will form part of a political grouping within the European Union Parliament.
Alpha, on the other hand will hold its place if elected within the parameters of the Independent Political Groupings within the European Union in such a way that while bearing in mind, as Malta’s first European Party, the fundamental concept of pluralism and cosmopolitanism, Alpha will relate to the best interests of Malta within the European Union context. Therefore, Alpha will not state categorically that it will lean to one political grouping or another. It will hold its own in that, after evaluating any pending issue vis-à-vis the practical and real interests of Malta and the Maltese (plus Gozitans), Alpha hopes that through its communicative voice to be able to influence a line of thought that will prove of benefit to our country in the long run following due consultation with interested local groups and parties.
In the few days since the official launching of my political party Alpha, with our political feet firmly on Malta’s political ground, I can say that we have had very positive feedback to my party’s political agenda.
Many have approached us and told us that while agreeing on some items of our political agenda and disagreeing or disassociating themselves from other items on the same agenda, they congratulated us for having the courage and guts to lift the political carpet for my people to see for themselves basic issues which have not been addressed by our major political parties as they do not have the guts and the courage so to do in order not to loose votes.
It is up to the people of Malta and Gozo to realise that a vote for Alpha is a vote for their personal liberty, for their personal identification, for their personal remedy to issues which can contribute to make their lives and those of their loved ones so much better. Vote Alpha because Alpha will truly serve the interests of Malta and the Maltese within the European Union.
Dr Bezzina is chairman of Alpha Partit Politiku
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