Do you remember Muscat on Bondiplus, when he and Gonzi had to react to a number of statements made by the presenter?
One of them was: ‘in politics you may not always be able to tell the truth’.
Gonzi had reacted with a clear: “Definitely not. You must always tell the truth, above all, in politics. This is a cardinal principle.”
Muscat had replied: “Sometimes you have to tell the truth.”
In the first three months of his premiership it has already become apparent that the 'Sometimes' is going to be pretty rare.
In three months, Muscat has already officially lied three times.
He lied when government denied that Micallef was going to be made V18 chairman. He was later in fact made.
He lied when he said that he had successfully negotiated a special deal with the Commission regarding the Excessive Deficit Procedure. The Commission has flatly denied any special agreement, and reitarated that the EDP opened against Malta follows the procedure established by the treaties. This after the previous PN government ended the first quarter of this year and its last quarter in government with a reduction in the deficit, an increase in government revenue, and the biggest GDP growth in Europe.
He has again been caught lying when he had said that Franco Mercieca will be only seeing cases where he is the sole practitioner in the field, for few hours a week, without remuneration, for the benefit of the patients. Today we know Franco earns €3600 in one morning doing common cosmetic surgery and cataract operations which can be performed by many other ophtalmolgists.
We have a Prime Minister we cannot trust, a Code of Ethics which is not followed, a part-time Cabinet with no shame, and a government which by its own statements is not believed by the EU Commission.
That's just the change in direction we needed.
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