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Mugliett, Pullicino Orlando to stay away from PN executive meeting
Nationalist MPs Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Jesmond Mugliett will not attend tonight’s PN executive meeting which follows on last week's discussion on a PL vote of no confidence against Austin Gatt.
31 October 2011, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
Transport Minister Austin Gatt will have the backing of backbencher Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando in next Friday’s vote over the Labour motion calling for his resignation over the public transport reform.
In comments to MaltaToday, Pullicino Orlando said he is not going to attend tonight’s executive meeting of the Nationalist Party and that he would not be following Franco Debono's public declaration that he will abstain on the Labour motion.
“I don’t know why tonight’s meeting is going to take place. Last week Austin Gatt gave a detailed presentation of went on in the public transport reform and which amendments will take place to correct it,” Pullicino Orlando said. “I assume there are some members of the executive who want to intervene.”
He added that the next step is to wait and see how the changes in the reform, due two days after the 4 November vote, will work out. Asked whether this means that he will be voting against the Labour motion, Pullicino Orlando said: “definitely”.
Fellow backbencher Franco Debono has so far not budged on his decision to abstain from the vote. He has since reiterated that Gatt should shoulder political responsibility for the transport reform fiasco.
Asked whether the meetings are an attempt to present a united front against the motion, Pullicino Orlando said the meeting should have been held at a parliamentary group level if this was the case.
Nationalist MP Jesmond Mugliett declined to reveal how he’ll be voting next Friday in Parliament. But like Pullicino Orlando, he will not be attending tonight’s meeting. “I feel I have nothing to contribute,” he said, saying that instead he will be attending Parliament.
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No question but JPO is a cut above the other dissenters and mavericks within the PN. He can cleverly read the political signs much better than other disenchanted MP's and not paint himself into a corner as less savvy MP's like FD have a habit of doing.
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Mark my words when it comes to the crunch they will vote against the Pl motion,the reason is simple they want to stay on getting all the lurks and perks bunch of hypocrites.
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So while theparliament is in session gonziPN parliamentary group meets at the showroom instead, and gonzi tries to convince us that he and his gang deserve two salaries, as ministers and MPs.
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God have mercy on us.
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Of course JPO will not attend – he drives a luxury Land Rover, thus for him the problems that us common peasants face when it comes to public transport, are irrelevant.
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Had JPO had any sense of decency or self-respect he would have quit GonziPN, after all the election was only won thanks to his antics.
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The thanks he got was having GonziPN’s dogs of war unleashed against him.
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Yet he still trumpets his support for the party that has treated him so miserably – he is either a glutton for punishment or has been promised a really worthwhile reward.
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A few days ago, whilst on “Incontri” he referred to the “dark days” of “tal-Barrani”. I wonder how he never mentioned the fact that in 1987 the PN in government not only failed to take any action against the commanding officer of the SMU, but actually promoted him!!
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I wonder why….
