I’m sorry, what? Sometimes, I’m too logical for the affairs of the bizarre island of Malta. Apparently, Joe Giglio was Robert Abela’s best man during his wedding. I see. Really? How? And why?
Isn’t your best man supposed to be your best friend and long-time mate? Did Robert Abela really choose Joe Giglio as his best man for his wedding for political ends, or are they really best friends? By best friends, I mean your childhood or long-time friend with whom you built a meaningful relationship to the extent that you’re both as much as family to each other, and not your friend you met in business or politics.
Robert is so artificial and empty that it hurts.
Also, how is this actually good for the Nationalist Party that their spokesperson for interior affairs and justice is the friend of the Prime Minister? Joe Giglio was even a lawyer for Pilatus Bank and criticised its whistleblower in parliament, and this is just another reason why criminal lawyers can never be reliable politicians: their conflicts of interest.
The fight against organised crime and the mafia requires a militant stance, not courtesies of old friendships. How can the Nationalist Party present itself as a serious alternative when its spokesperson on one of Malta’s biggest problems has these conflicts of interest? It also sounds very strange that no one thought about these things in PN before appointing him to his current role.
This guy needs to be given another role in the opposition. Yesterday!!!!!!
Agreed
That’s politics for you. Political parties are merely custodians of their own. Their aim is to ensure the party survives even if it means corrupting society and rendering the state a pawn in the hands of a criminal cabal. It will never change. Any institution, political, religious, academic aims for the survival of itself. How that is achieved is irrelevant. Humans have been brainwashed for far too long by such institutions, the aim being to subdue and keep in check because the masses are inherently required for the financial expansion of these institutions. Unless people en masse shun the parties things will never change.
Sitwazzjoni tal-biki!
barra!!!
Zewg partiti lezbici.
I can’t see much wrong here. Their friendship might go back to their Uni. days and before they entered politics. Gonzi appointed George Abela president; and they were friends as Law students. It is wrong is if the lawyer does business with his clients when he is fully aware of their crimes. Had Joe Giglio invested in Pilatus then it would have been unacceptable.
Welcome to the UniParty.
barra
Glad to see the “party-in-waiting” getting a bit of spotlight. Needs to offer more than a simple change of snouts at the trough.
They have even worked together for some of the worst criminal individuals in Malta’s history. Take for instance Noel Arrigo, the ex Chief Justice who was arraigned and eventually found guilty for bribery.
Here is an article from the Times of Malta, with Joe Giglio and Robert Abela shoulder to shoulder, exiting the court with Noel Arrigo: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/trial-of-former-chief-justice-prosecutor-stresses-seriousness-pof-case.281266