Net TV presenter irked at being left out of European elections

TV presenter Jean Claude Micallef has taken umbrage at his exclusion from the Nationalist Party's list of candidates for the European Parliament elections of 2014.

Micallef, 26, wrote on his Facebook wall stating he "understood the pain of having the party one loves not reflecting what one deservers and what the people who support you want."

Micallef lost out to more prolific candidates like businesspeople Helga Ellul and Jonathan Shaw, lawyers Stefano Mallia, Kevin Cutajar and Therese Commodini Cachia, PN youth section president Kevin Plumpton, and incumbents David Casa and Roberta Metsola.

The selection was carried out by a specially-appointed party commission.

On his part, Micallef set himself out to be the ideal candidate to win the elusive third seat the PN has been missing ever since 2004, and in a barrage of political-ese the anti-divorce entertainer told voters that he had "kept them at heart with my work".

"I understand the remorse of those who saw that my name was not included in the list to help the PN obtain the third seat... I will keep on working to see that the PN becomes a party of the people, and get closer to the electorate's aspirations."

A word from the wise came from former Nationalist MP Karl Gouder, who told Micallef that had he been a loyal candidate, he would have refrained from posting the status update. "I'm sure the commission chose wisely and I you intent [sic] being a politician you have to learn to bow your head."