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The PN leadership has after all decided to avoid having a total showdown with the three MPs it condemned through the Executive Committee for the way they voted on the motions in parliament calling for the resignation of Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici and Richard Cachia Caruana.
The prevailing position in the PN leadership till yesterday was that the PN Executive Committee meeting on Thursday 12 July 2012 would expel from the party the three MPs Franco Debono, Jesmond Mugliett and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando for voting in favour or abstaining in the motions calling for the resignation of Carm Mifsud Bonnici from Home Affairs Minister and Richard Cachia Caruana from Malta’s EU Permanent Representative or abstaining.
Last Sunday Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said it was unacceptable for PN MPs to vote with the Opposition. He said it was not enough to condemn the three MPs and the PN could not ignore what they had done. He said they would have to face consequences and the matter would not end there.
It now seems that after all the PN will be backing down from escalating matters and will not after all expel the three MPs. Pullicino Orlando has been promised a full discussion on his motion calling for the expulsion of Richard Cachia Caruana from the PN.
MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando had already said that if he is expelled from the PN, the Prime Minister should call an election as his government would have lost its parliamentary majority.
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sargu
- Fri 06-Jul-2012, 11:29The three musketeers did it again
stefan
- Fri 06-Jul-2012, 06:47Tghid jekk ihaluhom fil-partit ghad jigi iz-zmien li jiehdu t-tmexxija tal-partit f'idejhom flimkien ma dawk l-eziljati ohra tal-PN?
Platun
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 19:51Coraggio Fugiamo Lorenzo
GL Calleja
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 18:07"The PN leadership has after all decided to avoid having a total showdown with the three MPs it condemned through the Executive Committee ..." And why do you ask? Because there is no way on earth that the PN can oust these three, not in a million years and they know it.
PHILIP GAUĊI
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 16:11Minn dejjem kienu faxxisti u allura ma nieħu xejn bi kbir. Niftakar meta fi żmien gvern Soċjalista tal-Perit Mintoff,Dr.Mario Feliċe li dak iż-żmien kien MP Nazzjonalista wassal messaġġ lil gvern Amerikan kif kien mitlub jgħamel bi pjaċir minn l-istess Mintoff, fl-elezzjoni ta'wara il-PN ħadem kontrih fid-distrett ta Tas-Sliema biex ma jitlax.
L-istess kien ġara mill-Perit Karm Lino Spiteri (iċ-ċunpaqq), għax kien għin u ta'pariri lil Lorry Sant meta kienet qed tinbena Dar il-Mediterran. Għamlu minn kollox biex fid-distrett tal-Mellieħa jibqa l-art.
Faxxist twieled il-Partit tagħhom u b'din l-ideoloġija jibqgħu.
Kris
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 14:24Can GonziPN please explain to us mortals who is running this country? GonziPN, the oligarchy or the three MPs? I definitely believe it is the last option.
cittadin malti
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 12:36Il-kumitat ezekutiv nazzjonalista ma jistax ikeccihom lil dawn it -tlett membri parlamentari mil-partit ghax jaf li prim ministru jitlef il-maggoranza fil-parlament u jkollu jsejjah elezzjoni general bikrija. Issa mhux lil-prim ministru gonzi biss ghandu sarima ma halqu anke ezekuttiv tal-PN.Meta jkollna prim ministru marbut mas-siggu tal-poter dan ikollu jilaq dak kollu li jghidulu JPO,Franco Debono hu Jesmond Mugliet hu joqghod ghal-dak kollu li jaddettaw huma.
Samurai
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 11:44HA,HA,HAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
Gonzipn daqq ir-ritirata.
Ara veru inkullati mas-siggu li ghandhom tahtom dawn in-nies.
Ma nafx meta se jdahhal f'mohhu (jekk ghad ghandu wiehed), li tilef il-maggoranza ghal darba, tnejn tlieta.
Meta se jinduna, jiftah ghajnejh u widnejh u jara u jisma' x'qed jitlob u jghid il-poplu. Jigifieri, biex jitlob vot ta' fiducja minn ghand il-poplu w jghajjat elezzjoni llum qabel ghada.
HAWKEYE
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 11:00SHOULD THE PN DECIDE NOT TO EXPEL IT'S 3 MPS.IT MEANS ONLY ONE THING WHICH IS THEY ARE BRACING THEMSELVES FOR A MASSIVE ELECTORAL DEFEAT AND BY KEEPING THEM ON THE PN HAS BECOME EVEN MORE DANGEROUS TO EVERY CITIZEN IN THIS COUNTRY,SMELLS LIKE EFA PUT IN SOME GOOD WORDS FOR THE FAMOUS 3(HONESTLY I DO HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT FOR THE INDIVIDUALS).GONZI MIGHT WANT TO SERVE HIS REVENGE AS A COLD DISH ONCE HE NETS THEM INTO THE FOLD,THE MAN HAS NO TALENT TO WORK WITH SO HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT KEEP THEM ON,NO JOHN DALLI COMING TO THE RESCUE THIS TIME AROUND EITHER,BEING AN EU COMMISSIONER SUITS HIM JUST FINE.LOUIS GALEA WOULDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BEING IN THE SAME GONZIPN FOLD,HE PAID HIS DUES UNDER EFA,AND GOT EXILED FOR IT.
zeppi l-ghawdxi
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 10:27Gonzi jrid iwwarrabom minn ma saqajh bhalissa ghax kull kif se jkollu jsejjah elezzjoni. Hekk ma jkollux problema li dawn jerghu jaqilu l-problemi jekk ikunu jridu jikkontestawmal-PN fl-elezzjoni li jmiss. B'gebla wahda jkun laqat zewg ghasafar.
malonki
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 08:22Bir-rispett kollu nahseb li min kiteb dan l-artikolu ma jafx x'qed jghid !!!! Ma tarawx li gonzipn ZGUR U ZGUR li qatt ma hu se jiehu pass li bih itellef lilu nnifsu u lill-klikka tieghu mill-poter li tant huma mkahhlin mieghu biex ikomplu jerdghu l-miljun mill-poplu? Ovvju li dak li se jigri issa hu li bil-parlament gustuz taghna maghluq ghall-vaganzi tas-sajf, issa gonzipn se jkollu x-xoqqa f'moxtha biex joqoghod iniggez hu lil dawk it-tlett ribelli ghax jaf li ghal 3/4 xhur mhux se jkollhom platform fejn joqoghdu jumiljawh hlief il-gazzetti u hu m'hu se jkollu bzonn ta' ebda vot minn ghandhom !!! Kif dawk it-tlieta kulma ghamlu li dahhlu s-sikkina f'dahar gonzipn imma qatt ma dawwruha biex jixkupawh 'l hemm, issa wasal it-turn ta' gonzipn biex jaghmel l-istess haga lilhom ... izda ghalkemm se jniggizhom ftit ha jpattihielhom, ibqghu zguri li QATT u QATT ma jasal biex jaqbez mill-irdum ghal isfel, ma tarax .... ghad baqaghlhom l-ahhar sena x'jerdghu .. u tahsbu li se jceduha hekk? XI ZBALL KBIR GHANDKOM !!!!
l fenech
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 08:11The situation should be turned aroung, it is Gonzi who should be expelled from the party as he is the problem that everything now is stagnant sarting with the parliament sittings.
HAWKEYE
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 08:07ALL RHETORIC.THE PN WILL STAY ON TILL THE LAST DAY OF IT'S MANDATE.THE 3 MPS WHO MIGHT BE OUSTED WILL GIVE THE PN A BIGGER LOSS IF THEY WENT FOR AN ELECTION,THE FLOATERS SUPPORT THE 3 AS THEY HAVE CHANGED POLITICS IN THIS COUNTRY AND SPOKE YHIER MIND FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY,PLUS NONE OF THEM IS ARROGANT!ANYWAY IF THE ELECTION WAS THAT CLOSE HOW COME WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ON OIL DRILLING YET?
Charles J Buttigieg
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 07:52Our Constitution makes it mandatory for the President of the Republic to ask the Leader of the Opposition whether he can form a government when the incumbent PM gives his resignation before the end of the respective legislature. This means that if the three dissidents withdraw their support to Gonzi and become independent MPs Joseph Muscat would become the Leader of the absolute majority in the House and hence the ipso facto PM until the natural end of the legislation.
Years after of the resignation of Dr. Sant in 1998, President emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, admitted that it was his mistake for not asking Eddie Fenech Adami to try to form a government.
nina
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 07:42Wenzinugonzipn, xh'bicca ghamlulek il pretty boy's. telfullek il baby carm, telfullek il mimmi ta ghajnejk lil rcc, u fuq kollox telfuk id dritt li tibqa ghadej minn fuq il poplu, il konsegwenzi trid tbattihom INT tal hsara gbira li ghamilt il poplu b'azzjonik hazina li ghandek. int vera bniedem pathetic, u viljakk...jaqqqq jaqqqq u jaqqq
nina
- Thu 05-Jul-2012, 07:28Gonz, fil kas itfa il RCC flokhom ghax dak 3 persuni f'wiehed u indispensabbli...kummidjanti ta vera##@@))