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PN yet to discuss position on spring hunting referendum
Discussions between Prime Minister, Opposition leader brought up ‘new president’ issue but no particular names were mentioned.
18 January 2014, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
2 min read
Opposition leader Simon Busuttil on Ghandi xi Nghid. (Photo: Facebook)
The Nationalist Party was yet to discuss and take a position on the spring hunting referendum, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said.
Late last year, Busuttil said on Dissett that the Opposition was not in favour of a referendum abolishing spring hunting but instead it is in favour "of adopting its previous stand to establishing a short and controlled spring hunting period."
In an interview on Radju Malta's Ghandi x'Nghid, Busuttil also said that during a recent meeting with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the appointment of a new president was briefly brought up but no particular names were mentioned.
"I can confirm that the subject was brought up. I cannot reveal what was said during this meeting with the PM, but we did speak about it. No particular names were mentioned," Busuttil said when asked by presenter Andrew Azzopardi.
Busuttil however reiterated that the PN strongly suggested that the new president should come from the PN camp.
"The appointment of George Abela was a positive experiment of the previous administration. We believe that this should become the tradition."
The interview with Busuttil delved into a number of issues, including the controversial citizenship scheme, the impeachment motion of Judge Lino Farrugia Sacco, civil unions and the European Parliament elections.
Busuttil evaded questions on why Hermann Schiavone and Jean Claude Micallef were not approved by the PN's executive council.
"I prefer not to comment because they are private persons. They are not in the public light and it would not be fair to comment," he said, adding that the party's commission tasked with vetting candidates simply put forward recommendations.
It was then up to the PN's executive council to decide.
On civil unions, Busuttil insisted that the government "should not rush into allowing gay couples to adopt".
"We're going from one extreme to another. It was only two years ago when Malta introduced divorce. We're only saying that adoptions should not be rushed with. We should study the issue and avoid any consequences which we might suffer in the future," he said.
Busuttil said the civil unions bill presented by the government was gay marriage with a different name. The Opposition's amendments, he said, would clearly distinguish between marriage and civil unions.
He insisted that adoptions by gay couples were not an issue of inequality: "Having children is not a couple's right. Adoption is about what's in the best interest of the child."
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Maybe crying Simon is after the job,
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Re new President, Dr Joseph Muscat what you should do is that before you pubicly announce who is going to be the new President, call Dr Know allò Xmun Busuttil and inform him on whom you decided to appoint. You will be copying what Dr Gonzi useed to do, and just in case he will start crying prtepare some tissue paper and hand them over to him. Remermber that he is the leader of a Party who was swept out of power with a lasndslide loss of 36000 and with a difference of 9 seats in Parliament for wehich they should thank both Mr Mintoff and Dr Sant for their democrastic beliefs, othertwise their loss in parliamentary membership would have been more than catastrophic
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If the PN wanted this to become a tradition, he could have done this before and not after the appointment of four PN Ex-Ministers and an Ex-Prime Minister. If this experiment was made after four PN presidents, we can do the same to oblige but after four PL presidents. Isn't that fair enough?
As for the spring hunting referendum, they have no option. They have to support that hunting in spring should, otherwise they will be giving a clear confirmation that Dr Simon Busuttil had lied all along before the EU referendum, when he together with Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami and the EU commission said that the issue of spring hunting was guaranteed in the agreed packet with the EU.
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If the PN wanted this to become a tradition, he could have done this before and not after the appointment of four PN Ex-Ministers and an Ex-Prime Minister. If this experiment was made after four PN presidents, we can do the same to oblige but after four PL presidents. Isn't that fair enough?
As for the spring hunting referendum, they have no option. They have to support that hunting in spring should, otherwise they will be giving a clear confirmation that Dr Simon Busuttil had lied all along before the EU referendum, when he together with Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami and the EU commission said that the issue of spring hunting was guaranteed in the agreed packet.
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Simon Busuttil strongly suggested that the next president should come from the PN camp.
He also said that the appointment of Dr. George Abela was a positive experiment of the previous administration. He believe that this should become a tradition.
Wait a minute and do not take this at face value because there is something fishy here.
The reason for the appointment was only made for convenience by GonziPN to try to minimize the effect that the election result. GonziPN wanted to make this thing look like that they were ready to make some kind of reconciliation with the PL and the Maltese people. With a few votes majority, GonziPN wanted the Maltese people to forget what kind of administration we had for the last 25 years. cont...
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Simon Busuttil strongly suggested that the next president should come from the PN camp.
He also said that the appointment of Dr. George Abela was a positive experiment of the previous administration. He believe that this should become a tradition.
Wait a minute and do not take this at face value because there is something fishy here.
The reason for the appointment was only made for convenience by GonziPN to try to minimize the effect that the election result. GonziPN wanted to make this thing look like that they were ready to make some kind of reconciliation with the PL and the Maltese people. With a few votes majority, GonziPN wanted the Maltese people to forget what kind of administration we had for the last 25 years.
