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Adrian Vassallo


I happened to watch a part of Bondi+ tonight, and these were some of the declarations made by Adrian Vassallo, a Labour MP since 1996:

"I received no reply from him. Nothing. He doesn't even look at me in Parliament."

"The Labour Parliamentary Group has become just a rubber-stamp of what the Leader says. First, your colleagues come to fill you up with "say this, say that", and then, as soon as the Leader disagrees with you, they come out against you to agree with him."

"So he came out to defend Cyrus Engerer on his pending court case, and I, who was given a free-vote on a matter of conscience, was publicly attacked by him in that manner because I exercised the free-vote he told me I had."

"The emphasis is no longer on the party, it's on the movement. Why a movement? It's a movement whose sole aim is to bring down the Nationalists, and then we'll see. But let's start discussing what we are going to do, what are our principles! Nothing! No one knows what policies and principles we have, not even me."

"Of course we try to jump on the Franco Debono bandwagon...he's an opportunity to bring down the Nationalists (the sole aim). Watch him, he's constantly invited on TV, on our One TV. You only see him."

"The party is not allowing a level playing-field for everyone. They push one and discard the other. There are those pushed on every TV programme and others who are given the side."

"Either you agree with what he says, or if not, he seeks revenge. It's not democracy, it's communism...or better, a dictatorship."


See also report on the Times of Malta
You might also wish to read Michael Refalo's opinion-piece in the Times today: Tribute to Adrian Vassallo.

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