President’s speech: too partisan for majority of online readers

The partisan speech was delivered by the President Emeritus on the eve of the general elections. If there is an advice to be taken surely this should not come from Eddie Fenech Adami. I suppose now the PN in opposition will be trying to play the usual silly games of obstructing the government. They have already wasted their time with stupid statements criticizing the government on trivial things. They're not worth the parliamentary salary they are earning.

Get over it. It has been said and done. But it makes a lot of sense to be responsible for what you read. If Dr Muscat wanted to relay a message he should have read the letter himself and not use the President of the country do it for him. The law needs to be changed to make sure that the writer and or speaker is expressing what they feel and not what others feel. This was not supposed to be a partisan speech and if it was done before then that was wrong too. Let us work as a people. Look back and see what arrogance can do. It left us all without a budget.

Fl-ahhar mill ahhar kullhadd jghid li jrid! U KULLHADD JAQRA LI JRID ~ Kellu cans jirrangah il-President kieku veru ried! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Il-PN ma jiflahx it-telfa li ha u ghadu stordut!! Il_President kien jaf x'inhu jghid, u ma qal xejn li 'l-Poplu Malti ma kienx diga garraf ARROGANZA U KLIKKEK .... U nzid nghid OLIGARKIJA illi ma ssemietx fid-diskors tal-President, kif kellha tissemma OLIGARKIJA!

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN PARTISAN , the only difference is that the PN are sore losers and there was practically no social network and Facebook in 2004..... and certainly not in 1987 when Paul Xuereb "ACTING PRESIDENT" was made out to read the speech DICTATED TO HIM by the than Prime Minister Eddie now Edward or is it Eddie again Fenech Adami?!

If you notice, the PN is making a big deal about everything! In this case I also think that Pres Abela is playing ball with the PN. The place where he had his outburst about the speech from the throne ,was not appropriate; he is also embarrassing PM Muscat; and he is coming through as one not sayin the truth. Abela had the speech 2 days before, so why create this embarrassment to the govt but mostly, to himself. He is portraying himself as a petulant little brat who is finding an excuse of 'Not me, Mummy. He made me do it !'' Cute for a little boy; Not so for an aging politically savvy President of the Republic.

The article is based on ''respondents to MaltaToday's online, non-scientific poll.'' The key word is non-scientific. Hence the result is worthless. It's just a waste of time, money and newspaper space. What is a fact, as seen from response to other articles (orchestrated??)is that in such loaded political situations those heavily bruised,(tkaxkira li qatt ma raw b'hala] would clutch at any straw to excuse the loss Gonzipn suffered. The other fact is that it is useless for moaners to clutch at straws. Straws just do not save one from drowning.

President Emeritus my foot, who went and delivered an absolutely partisan speech in the final days of the Election Campaign should best lie low and desist from interfering further. It was bad enough appointing himself President after spending years as Prime Minister, and as Prime Minister he had done exactly the same. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

@franco Yes, that is you, and you are not the president -- thank God! :-) The president should have known better.

It all depends from which point of view you look on this speech. If you look from thepoint of view of those who do not want to hear the thruth,you can say it was a partisan political speech because as they say,truth can hurt those who do not want to hear it. But from the other point of view,that speech reflected the truth and the reality of what was happening in our country and how arrogant was some Ministers outgoing Government before the General Election.

Get a life! The whole funking bunch of you brainwashed political fools. Every politician is a self serve pendulum whose main interest is his own ambitions and fat bank accounts. This President received his political exposure and benefits under a Labour Government. When things got too hot he swung on the other side to the PN and received his timely reward by being anointed President by Lawrence Gonzi. Have all those entire Labour diehards forgotten this President’s contribution to the PN drive to wreck havoc against the Sant leadership by the now famous clique within the circle of friends? This time the pendulum has swung again and in the future we will hear about what king of benefits awaits this outgoing president or his law firm from this present administration. Just remember if everyone stops muddling the water, eventually the truth will be exposed by those that feel they did not receive recognition for their contributions. This last general election campaign is a prime example how much Malta’s political appointments and electorate acts of the constitution are inferior to reflect on a real democratic republic. One final note that comes to mind is the resignation from MEPA CEO Ian Stafrace who tendered his resignation and is an associate of this President in their esteemed law firm. Could it be that they intend to become the main beneficiaries of the Mepa contracts and as such has looked ahead to avoid any future questions about conflict of interest?

It is not partisan! It is a policy speech by the Head of the Executive. That's how it always was these last 60 years and more. Nobody ever complained about the kind of speech that was given in 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008. Along comes 2013, we have the basest generation of an unwilling PN opposition, unable to come to terms with itself as an opposition, shackled with a mountain high sense of arrogance and an infinite historic ignorance, and hell breaks loose over a speech from the throne which doesn't extol the virtues of an NP government. And that makes the speech from the throne unacceptable, biased etc etc and a thousand other etceteras. One may simple say to the PN opposition: Fiss off, that's what there is and that's what you'll have. This LP government doesn't work that way. It's humble enough to listen to these unscrupulous, totally corrupt hypocrites.

Who gives a shot what the majority think, it is only the worms coming out of the woodwork. Nobody bothered to say anything when Pawlu Xuereb was given the most demeaning speech ever by Eddy Fenech Adami as PM.So stop moaning and get on with life. If it was me I would have extended the speech by an hour listing all the corrupt practices of the previous administration naming and shaming those ex-ministers who through their arrogance took the people for granted and expected a gonzipn victory.But that is me .

Who gives a shot what the majority think, it is only the worms coming out of the woodwork. Nobody bothered to say anything when Pawlu Xuereb was given the most demeaning speech ever by Eddy Fenech Adami as PM.So stop moaning and get on with life. If it was me I would have extended the speech by an hour listing all the corrupt practices of the previous administration naming and shaming those ex-ministers who through their arrogance took the people for granted and expected a gonzipn victory.But that is me .