Our honourable Prime Minister was right in saying that the European parliamentary election was not a vote of confidence in his government. It turns out however that the outcome was strikingly clear that it was de facto a vote of no confidence in his government. How can the Prime Minister otherwise interpret this result? Is it not ironic that the party which had encouraged our nation to vote against joining EU has gained four seats whilst the party in government, which enthusiastically persuaded slightly more than half the Maltese electorate to vote yes to join the EU, only managed to obtain two parliamentary seats?
Was this because the Maltese electorate considered the PL candidates more well endowed as Maltese representatives in the EU rather than their counterparts of the PN, or was it a determinately no confidence vote in the present government?
Gonzi has blamed his own government for the PN’s trashing in the recent European parliamentary elections, and whilst assuming responsibility as Prime Minister, he fails to acknowledge that in this capacity he should bear the brunt of the absolute majority of the electorate’s condemnation. Bearing in mind that his government was only elected just a few months ago by a very slim majority thanks to political corruption (promising legalisation of squatters at Little Armier, tax concessions or exceptions to others, abnormal number of employments pre-election period, etc..), whereby such actions were not clearly apparent to the public at the time of the general elections, the Maltese nation used this election to express its disgust and utter condemnation.
In such circumstances, if he does not like to be considered as Prime Minister of the minority government (or as a ‘dead man walking’, as coined by a newspaper editor), and would like to preserve his self-esteem as an honourable gentleman, then the only course of action remaining for him is to resign. The sooner, the better.
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