‘Coalition of confusion’ confirmed

Just three months ago, the famous or infamous blogger, depending on which side of the fence one sits – Daphne Caruana Galizia – was hailed as the PN’s hero during PN mass-meetings. Today, for many of those same PN Delia supporters who had hailed her as a hero, Daphne has become a hated villain !

The reason which has convinced them that she is a villain and not a hero has been her unrelenting and vicious attack on Dr Adrian Delia . This supposed “race between friends” has turned out to be “a race between harsh antagonists, to put it mildly. But when Daphne entered into the fray, the race became one between the PN establishment against the ‘Johnny-come-lately’ candidate Adrian Delia.

The result of the first round of the PN leadership race had resulted in Adrian Delia polling the highest number of councillors’ votes, but not the majority of votes. On 16 September, Adrian Delia won the PN members’ vote by a narrower margin than expected. Up to the time of writing this letter, he has definitely not won the vote of the PN’s par- liamentary group. This ultra-conservative novice-politician (crossing himself before starting a speech) has been likened to a “throwback to the PN of the 1980s”, as well as “an autocratic and ruthless man”. He was also likened to a serial liar by the PN’s famous blogger herself ! Indeed, hearing Dr Delia’s speeches – which were even more hysterical than certain speeches of Beppe Fenech Adami – to his supporters at the B’Kara PN club on September 1, calling Labourites “our enemies” (the second time he had used this term in three days) and gesticulating like a mad man, does not bode well for the PN. Indeed, what we are seeing are Dr Delia’s frantic and desperate efforts to finally obtain a parliamentary seat, which confirms that the task ahead is even harder than the one Simon Busuttil had to face.

I simply cannot imagine how Adrian Delia could ever manage to unite the whole PN parliamentary group behind him when he has defied the official party leadership. Eddy Privitera