Gonzi to confirm his ‘No’ in tomorrow’s final parliamentary vote on divorce

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi is set to vote against the amended and completed divorce bill as it will be brought for the final vote in third reading tomorrow morning.

Gonzi – who earlier this month had voted against the bill on a matter of conscience during the second reading of the bill – had said in his parliamentary speech that he will vote against the bill in all its stages in parliament.

The divorce bill is scheduled to come into force as of 1 October, and Justice Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici will be given until 31 March 2012 to update all other related laws.

Gonzi has also raised the issue of maintenance. He described the ‘guarantee’ for adequate maintenance as a fallacy, only to be upstaged by MPs in committee who agreed that the right for adequate maintenance to be given to the children of divorced parents until they are 23 years old, if they are in post-secondary education, would be extended to all children.

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Billi llum se jittiehed l-ahhar vot dwar il-ligi tad-divorzju. U llum nistenna li aktar deputati tal-PN se jivvutaw IVA - u b'hekk Gonzi, li zgur se jerga jivvota LE aktar isib ruhu izolat, ra kif ivvinta biex idahhal lil Joseph Muscat fli storja tat-Torca dwar missila, li skond it-Torca , giet sparata mil-Libja. Gonzi hataf l-okkazzjoni biex idahhal lil Joseph Muscat u lil PL f'din li storja b'attakk feroci - sinjal car ta' disperazzjoni specjalment minhabba l-vot tal-lum, forsi jdawwar l-attenzjoni tal-poplu fuq din li storja. U meta jaf li l-PL u Joseph Muscat m'ghandhom x'jaqsmu xejn dwar x'jidher fit-Torca ! Pero ta' min izid li sa llum HADD ghadu ma qalilna x'kienet dik li spluzzjoni kbira li nstemghet minn Had-Dingli u r-Rabat ! Eddy Privitera
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iktar ma Wenzu jghid LE u LE U LE, iktar il-poplu ser jghamel bhalu u jghidlu - LE u LE U LE dalwaqt, darba ghal dejjem. Wenzu xeba jisma u ghalaq widnejh - hekk qal dan l-ahhar.....ahseb u ara kemm ahna mxebbejn ahna, li ilna nisimsghu lilu jghid haga u jghamel ohra snin kbar issa. Taghtux kaz xi nghid aghtu kaz x'naghmel- qalilna u hekk ser naghamlu sieheb. Webbes rasek Wenz ..urina kemm tahseb li hadd ma jista ghalik, itla iktar il-fuq fis-shab halli zgur ma tiehu parir minn ghand hadd, lanqas tisma minghand shabek bhal darmanin u shabu u taf x'tisbitha ha tiehu dalwaqt hux?.......forsi mbaghad toqghod titkarrab li kont vittma tal-kuxjenza religjuza bhal ma kien iz-ziju Mikiel...dak ukoll kien webbes rasu u llum kellhu jkun ta' warajh li jibla kollox u jitlob mahfra, Iz-zmien mhux itik il-parir biss imma jgherrik ukoll.
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taf li skantajtna blis staqrija tieghek sur gonzi?jahasra
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M'hemmx għalfejn tgħidulna. Ħu GONEZI qal li min jinjora l-poplu huwa dittatur. Kulħadd jaf li GONEZI kien qal "Se nivvota le. U se nivvota bil-qalb".
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He used to call Dr Alfred Sant and the labour party as the "LE" people, at least neither Dr Sant nor the Labour party disregarded the vote of the people after saddling them with a referendum and made a mockery of democracy.