24 May 2013 | 23:40
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Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi seems to be losing all control of the political situation and cannot even exercise authority over the PN. He insists on hanging on till the bitter end and will try to have an election in 2013 and is trying to fend off the pressure of a growing number of ministers and top PN officials who want an election to be called late September/early October 2012.
Top officials have given the go-ahead for the PN's bill-boards to be rolled out and are organizing meetings for PN activists to help in the coming election as if an election is just round the corner.
Gonzi is in a minority in the PN top ranks that wants a 2013 election and is worried that since January the party has not managed to attract back the thousands of voters who so far have decided not to vote PN in the coming election. Gonzi is hoping that the current opinion polls they are carrying out since the resignation of MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando from the PN will show a surge of sympathy for him.
Those who want a September/October election are worried that so far the PN seems to be losing further ground rather than regaining it.
Pullicino Orlando’s decision to respect the wishes of his over 5,100 voters by following the electoral mandate of 2008 and yet resigning from the party because of Richard Cachia Caruana’s and Minister Austin Gatt’s way of doing politics seems to have struck a sympathetic chord with the electorate.
The PN strategy team is eagerly awaiting the results of the opinion poll the PN is conducting to see how the electorate has reacted to the latest development in the PN crisis when its parliamentary group has gone down from 35 to 34.
Comments
l fenech
- Tue 24-Jul-2012, 09:14Gonzi never had, does not have and never will have control of any situation. Others have taken it away from him.
Joseph Ellul-Grech
- Tue 24-Jul-2012, 08:09“When the public and government differ government is generally in the wrong”
“The love of exercising power has been found to be so universal, that no class of men who have possessed authority have been able to avoid abusing it”.
Dr. Gonzi has abused the power entrusted to him by the electorate for far too long and should be held accountable for his actions. He stole the last election by deceiving the electorate and abusing public funds to gain power.
His determination to continue with his undemocratic and selfish practices is unacceptable. Self-destruction is a messy business.
H Galea
- Tue 24-Jul-2012, 00:49Huddine will announce the date of the comming election, when a section of the new parliment be ready.
GONZI is FINISHED
- Mon 23-Jul-2012, 20:10The longer Gonzi takes to call
an election the bigger the
victory for the PL.
Gonzipn and the Nationalist
Partit is nothing but an
oligarchy run by greed and
dishonesty. Gonzi has run
a shameful Government these past four years which no power of incumbency will this time overturn Labour's march to
victory.
Hip ...Hip... Hurrah...Hip...
Hurrah
EX PN
- Mon 23-Jul-2012, 18:58Bhal eks nazzjonalist nistqarr li iktar ma jghaddi iz-zmien iktar nikkonferma li ahjar nivvota lil Partit Laburista milli ma nivvutax (bhal ma ghamilt fil-kunsilli loklali).