We will be facing a slow-burn, five-month campaign of sorts, brutal for all parties with the shadow of the pandemic and the fear of an economic slowdown hanging over us. At least, it won’t be his number one priority, because campaigns that win votes are seldom negative cones.
Having said that, I am sure that Grech knows that the closer we get to the thick of the electoral campaign this year, the last thing he might be placing at the centre of his campaign to chip the votes off Labour will be the anti-corruption fight. And nobody knows it more than us that, we as a society, want a government whose checks and balances keep it from benefiting one political party every time power swings from one side to the other. Malta may not be bad as other EU nations whose own powers have rendered its citizens powerless – nations whose secret services have been at the heart of political conspiracies, nations whose own policies have tolerated the development of narco-states, nations whose own tax evasion regimes and bank scandals receive scant attention from the powers that be.īut we can do definitely better.
They are measures that have been pending for some time now and will be crucial to ensure that we are on the right track – not just for the sake of addressing Malta’s greylisting problem, but also to ensure that our system of government is constitutionally built on the pillar of rule of law, and that it contains within it a system of checks and balances that limit its overweening power. Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech unveiled an anti-corruption package of laws in the form of 12 legislative measures that need to be taken to fight corruption, apart from various other crimes connected to mafia-like associations, and other shortcomings in our system of governance.
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