Salvu Mallia leads five-man protest against government corruption

PN candidate Salvu Mallia was back out on the streets, his Daschund in tow, to protest against alleged governmnet corruption together with three other activists, PN local councillors David Thake, Wayne Hewitt and Charlot Cassar, on the eve of the EU summit. Another activist joined the protest.

The five men walked down Republic Street holding signs depicting caricatures of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, his chief of staff Keith Schembri and minister Konrad Mizzi as worms in a rotten apple.

Other signs branded them as the KKK, or Klikka Korrotta Kastilja (Castille's corrupt clique) over the Panama Papers revelations, which found Mizzi and Schembri having set up secret offshore companies in Panama and New Zealand. The allusion to the American white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan did not go amiss, after Mallia previously suggested his self-declared nemesis Joseph Muscat as being akin to an 'Adolf Hitler'.

Mallia said that the gang of thieves led by prime minister Joseph Muscat had planned to plunder the country’s coffers much before winning the last election, and they were now reaping the fruit of the work, as evidenced in the repeated allegations of corruption leveled against the administration.

“Joseph went way beyond politics in what he did and he no longer represents this country, or even his own party,” he said. “Muscat now just represents himself and the gang of thieves he has surrounded himself with.”

Malllia said that EU leaders visiting Malta on Friday for an informal summit should intervene in the interest of all Maltese, and that was why he felt the need to protest against "the corruption and sleaze" that was predominant in the government.

“I believe that the rotten apple infected by prime minister Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri, is now infecting the other apples on the tree,” he said.

Mallia said that "case after case of alleged corruption, political interference, graft and sleaze were evidence that the whole administration was under the same spell".

He said he would continue to stage such protests, even if he had to turn up alone and without any support.

“This was my initiative and I hope that the public will understand why I did it and will support me,” Mallia said.