Farrugia calls for anti-Labour coalition, lambasts government as ‘Putin-esque’

Democratic Party (PD) leader Marlene Farrugia delivered a rallying call to opponents of the Labour government, urging them to unite as a single coalition to overthrow it.

“The PN cannot [overthrow the government] by itself, and neither can Alternattiva Demokratika, the PD, NGOs, civil society, or the remains of Labour that want their party to return to its roots as a workers’ party,” the independent MP said in a Facebook post. “We don’t have any time left. We must join forces now so as to head into the next election as one voice to reclaim our country from the national, environmental and historical abyss that this government wants to bury us in.”

The former Labour MP warned that Joseph Muscat’s government is degenerating into a “Putin-esque” and “Xi-esque” style, in reference to the leaders of Russia and China.

“Malta is being vandalised under the umbrella of the law that isn’t a law, with the blessing of our own institutions that have become appendages of the government,” she said. “Many people are angry in silence, but anger is not enough to stop this government from snatching the next legislature and the one after that. It is not enough to stop the government from degenerating into a Putinesque, Xiesque style of governance – utilitarian, soulless and without human dignity.

“All opponents to this deceit must unite into a single political force that is determined to place this country on the road of good governance that we had dreamed about and voted for three years ago.”