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Carm Mifsud Bonnici should abstain on home affairs motion - Franco Debono
Nationalist MP Franco Debono calls on Home Affairs Minister and Leader of the House Carm Mifsud Bonnici to abstain on decision to schedule home affairs motion in parliamentary agenda.
23 April 2012, 12:00am
Jurgen Balzan
Jurgen Balzan
2 min read
Nationalist MP Franco Debono
Nationalist MP Franco Debono has called on Home Affairs Minister and Leader of the House, Carm Mifsud Bonnici to abstain from voting in the parliament's House Business Committee on matters which regard his ministry.
Mifsud Bonnici has been postponing the debate of a motion tabled by the Opposition on justice and home affairs since January.
"I had proposed the division of the justice and home affairs ministry myself and now the time has come to discuss the motion on justice and home affairs," Debono said.
"Carm Mifsud Bonnici should abstain from voting on matters that concern him," Debono said in an interview Monday morning on One TV.
In recent weeks, the Home Affairs Minister has come under intense pressure to step aside and allow the parliamentary debate on his ministry. The leader of the Opposition, Joseph Muscat has said Mifsud Bonnici should resign from Leader of the House, even temporarily, in order to stop blocking a debate and vote on a motion of no confidence on his ministry from taking place.
On the landmark judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court, which ruled that government and Parliament must amend the laws regulating bail, giving the accused the right to appeal the court's refusal for bail, Debono said "laws should not only change when they violate fundamental rights."He added that many laws that do not violate fundamental rights should still be changed.
Speaking to MaltaToday he referred to the 2007 collective agreement signed with doctors by the government which former health minister Loius Deguara said was signed without their consent.
"This is a case study in itself. If the agreement was signed without the minister's consent, then who is taking decisions?" Debono asked.
Debono who has long been calling for political reform said such instances show that "we have deviated from parliamentary democracy."
In reference to Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi's reaching-out drive in which he has called on ministers and PN officials to enter families' kitchens, Debono said "the term 'kitchen cabinet' was not coined recently."
The term was in fact first used in the nineteenth century by political opponents of US President Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unelected advisers he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet.
Jurgen Balzan was a MaltaToday reported from 2011 to 2017.
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louis deguara ghalhekk tnehha min ministru ghax kemm dam ministru tas sahha l-anqas biss kien jaf x'inhu jigri fil ministeru tieghu.
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franco ieqaf milli toqghod tiddetta x'ghandu jghamel haddiehor. ahjar tara x'se tghamel int. jiddispjacini nghidlek li jien ivvutajt ghalik imma iss tlift kull kredibilita fik.
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franco ieqaf milli toqghod tiddetta x'ghandu jghamel haddiehor. ahjar tara x'se tghamel int. jiddispjacini nghidlek li jien ivvutajt ghalik imma iss tlift kull kredibilita fik.
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Jew tiddecidi li tivvota kontra jew iqaf dahhaq in-nies biek franco ghax issa qed titlef kull ragun li kellek habib.
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How ironic for Franco Debono to give advice to people to abstain from voting. How about takind the advice himself, and put money where his mouth is and abstain too ...unless he has the proverbial balls to vote with the Opposition if he really beleives himself. Sometimes I think this boy does not even convince himself, and can only convince us too by voting in consonance with his many speeches and declarations. It is called CREDIBILITY.
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How ironic for Franco Debono to give advice to people to abstain from voting. How about takind the advice himself, and put money where his mouth is and abstain too ...unless he has the proverbial balls to vote with the Opposition if he really beleives himself. Sometimes I think this boy does not even convince himself, and can only convince us too by voting in consonance with his many speeches and declarations. It is called CREDIBILITY.
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How ironic for Franco Debono to give advice to people to abstain from voting. How about takind the advice himself, and put money where his mouth is and abstain too ...unless he has the proverbial balls to vote with the Opposition if he really beleives himself. Sometimes I think this boy does not even convince himself, and can only convince us too by voting in consonance with his many speeches and declarations. It is called CREDIBILITY.
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Jghid mhux hazin! U l-Malti jghid: 'Min jghid wisq, ftit fih risq!'
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Jghid mhux hazin! U l-Malti jghid: 'Min jghid wisq, ftit fih risq!'
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Angli tal-hniena kif dardar anki 'l.........
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As if ................ Franco you made the bed and unless you lay in it no one from gonzipn would ruffle it. Get real.
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Dan rega' tfacca? Mhux ahjar ihallina bi kwietna, galdarba ma kellux il-bocci li jaghmel dak li qal li se jaghmel u ghazel minflok li joqghod gallarija.
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Dr. Debono all this tough talk from an inteligent individual like yourself is having no effect whatsoever on this so called 'oligarcy - yes your an MP - yes all these topics you critizised the goverment about are long overdue - but we common people would like to tell you to - put up or shut up!
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Mela dalghodu rega' qam min-naha l-hazina tas-sodda l-Onorevoli Franco Debono ..... u min jaf x'gargarella u x'dijareja rega' ghandhom fuqhom gonzipn u l-klikka tieghu dalghodu waqt il-laqgha tal-kabinett fejn se jkunu qed jiddiskutu aktar favuri u pjaciri fil-girja sakemm tasal l-elezzjoni ..... cert li b'diskors bhal dan minn franco debono aktar u aktar tbieghdet id-data li fiha jsir dan id-dibattitu ... min jaf, forsi gonzipn irid izanzan il-parlament il-gdid bid-debate fuq din il-mozzjoni .... tafu intom, gentlom bhalu li jahseb li se jirbahna ghax jidher bi glekk bla ingrevata .....
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And still, GonziPN keeps trying to scare voters from voting for Dr. Muscat and his PL movement when it is so obvious that Gonzi and his ministers are the most scared people in our country at the moment - scared of losing their jobs with the result that the people may finally find out what they had really been up to these last 25 years !
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Sure, like when Austin Gatt abstained from voting in a vote of confidence against him!! These things just do not happen in Malta Dr Debono; keep on dreaming, unless YOU do have the guts to vote against him after all the things you said against him. But again, these things do not happen in Malta......
