Letters | Sunday, 29 March 2009

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Deidun’s dilemma explained

Alan Deidun (Sunday 22 March) should stop playing the victim. He chose to contest with the PN, nobody forced him to! He chose to support the PN and the EPP – the group with the worst voting record in environmental and quality of life issues in the European Parliament. His press events such as that next to a quarry, which belongs to who is well known for his ties to the PN, only confirm on whose side the PN in Malta is on: those who want to make a quick buck with total disregard of the common good. Maybe he realised a tad too late that he is being used to try to give a faint green tinge to a ‘grey’ conservative party. Greenwash indeed.
He goes on to lament about other candidates who are spending recklessly on their campaigns. If other candidates in his party are left to spend their way to a seat in Brussels then he should take up the issue with his party’s secretary-general instead of asking rhetorical questions on newspapers.
What he conveniently fails to mention is the PN’s resistance to any form of reform or regulation of financing, donations and campaign spending of political parties. I find it quite amusing that he describes his campaign as “effective change”. If he needs answers as to who finances his party in particular he should have informed himself before running for the elections. I hope I am seeing “through the rhetoric being thrown at me”.

Andre Vella
Balzan

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