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B maltatoday election special | Tuesday 26 February 2008 ELECTION SpECIaL ELECTIONS Election: Too hot 11 to handle for dayS TO gO astrid Vella – pg 3 mIssue 2 • TUESaltaDAY, 26 FeBRuARY 2008 • www.mtodayAltatoday.com.mT PRICE €0.50 / LM0.21 59%reject both pN and MLp on immigration 11% think aN has best policy on immigration 49% of those supporting aN’s immigration policy refuse to divulge voting intentions RaCISM TREMORS – page 4 TODAY IS GEORGE SANT: FILLING TOURISM PULLICINO’S HOLES WITH GOLF pg 10 DAY OF RECKONING pg 14 3 COURSES 3 159, Labour Avenue, Naxxar Tel: 2388 0088, 7939 2939 paper post News 2 maltatoday election election specialspecial | | TuesdayTuesday 26 26 February February 2008 2008 news maltatoday survey TuesdayTuesday 26 26 February February 2008 2008 | | election maltatoday special election maltatoday special 3 Sant lambasts Gonzi for Pics of individual candidates near each entry with their party logo: Pippo Psaila, Marlene Pullicino, Marie Louise Coleiro-Preca, Michael Frendo, Patrick Attard On the record Put each candidate in a box James Debono digs into the archives to fi nd what candidates have been failure to tackle corruption MATTHEW VELLA it’s the Europeans who are more saying on a variety of issues over the years advanced than our children.” Sant was also challenged on the cost overruns his government in- LABOUR leader Alfred Sant curred between 1996 and 1998. yesterday said that Eddie Fenech He said his government was in Adami’s maxim that whoever the process of tightening on over- does not fight corruption, was runs in government projects, and corrupt, could be applied to Law- then turned onto the National- rence Gonzi, whom he accused of ist government’s record on cost doing little to fight corruption. overruns in the five years since He had to defend the presence their re-election in 1998. of former Nationalist activist He was also quizzed on the Michael Woods at the Labour role of Labour MP and architect general conference. Woods had Charles Buhagiar in his steward- declared on One TV that his ship of government road projects brother Thomas Woods had which had incurred cost over- not been treated well by the Na- runs. Sant said Buhagiar’s role tionalist government. Thomas was supervisory and that cost Woods was in fact investigated overruns were primarily incurred over bribery charges. at the project management stages, PIPPO PSAILA MARIE LOUISE disagree with abortion… We do arrangements that fail. What hap- a whole evolves. One should not “With all due respect, it’s the which had pushed up supervisory PN candidate COLEIRO- present caretaker prime minister costs at a later stage. on 9th and not solve anything by introduc- PRECA pens is that co-habiting partners simply look at the elite of society.” ing divorce. For those who have are not covered by legal arrange- May 6 2007 – MaltaToday who doesn’t seem to deal with AD candidate Victor Galea also 10th district MLP candidate cases of corruption which have called for voters to consider the a valid reason there are annul- on 6th district ments to regulate their interests.” On divorce ments.” On entrenching abortion ban in never been investigated.” feasibility of coalition govern- “I am com- November 4 2007 – Illum On unemployment benefits the Constitution Defending Woods’s right to ments, pointing to the fact that pletely against On the cost of liv- “The difference between the un- “I am very strongly against abor- express his political views, he 22 European governments were divorce… This is On fireworks ing: employment benefit and the min- tion, I find it abhorrent, I find it said Gonzi had failed to enact coalition governments. He said not a question of rights but a “The only way to stop ac- “Whenever I spoke on the cost imum wage amounts to a couple very difficult how people can ac- a whistleblowers act that could a coalition government was nei- GILBERT CALLEJA question of faith and religion. cidents is to train those who of living I always recognised the of liri. If someone is offered a job cept it on a moral plain, but I don’t protect people giving evidence. ther Nationalist nor Labour, but I am not a purist. But there is work in fireworks factories. You fact that prices are affected by at minimum wage, it only takes a think this Constitutional amend- “Certainly this government is not smokescreens on corruption. “If the surcharge would receive tax Labour government, Sant said it a Maltese government. phrase which says: ‘what God cannot close fireworks facto- what is happening abroad. We are couple of simple calculationspage to 4 ment is on the cards.” interest in the fight against cor- you don’t give people the protec- credits. would not. Sapiano interjected to The AN candidate refused to has joined together let no man ries to avoid accidents. This is not crazy… The point here is that realise that with the additional December 2 2007 – MaltaToday ruption.” tion they need to give evidence, He defended his proposal from say this would force all those par- comment on the criminal and put asunder’. Marriage is an in- the same as banning driving to Malta lacks the basics. We have transport costs to travel to work Alternattiva Demokratika can- you are using the Commissioner claims that he required approval ents who did not intend to have civil cases concerning three can- PHOTOGRAPHY BY dissoluble bond. I do not expect avoid traffic accidents.” rightly liberalised the economy the person would only be earn- On the PN’s vision for Malta didate Victor Galea, who was of Police as a smokescreen. The from the Commission, which their children “pay with a year of didates, revealed by MaltaToday, everyone to agree with me but November 4 2007 – Illum and we have joined the European ing some Lm2 more than the “Transforming Malta into one brought on the programme later same goes for the Permanent states that any aid from the State their life” to spend an extra year saying these cases were still un- these are my values.” Union. But we lack the regulatory unemployment benefit. There is of the most successful small on along with PN candidate Commission for Corruption. had to generally be notified to in school, to send their kids to der court consideration. On the October 21 2007 – On the General Workers’ Un- mechanisms which many Euro- no incentive to motivate the un- states in the world. Not just a Georg Sapiano and Azzjoni Naz- Gonzi has been in power for the Brussels. Sant claimed this was a private schools, with all the costs case of Pierre Cutajar, who had MaltaToday ion pean countries have.” employed to enter the job market, centre for excellence, but also zjonali candidate Peter Spiteri last four years and he promised a general rule, but that in particu- that incurred. a string of criminal charges, he “I don’t agree with the abrupt November 4 2007 – especially those who would have ensuring that Malta remains Gingell, said the whistleblowers new style of doing politics. You’d lar cases where no big economic Sant defended the reception said Cutajar was a reformed man On whether 20 years in govern- way intelligent people like MaltaToday been unemployed for a number of one of the safest countries in act was not enough in the fight expect a whistleblowers act from impact would be registered, this class proposal, saying Maltese who had declared his past with ment are enough Josephine Attard Sultana and years.” Europe where people can walk against corruption, but had to be that.” notification would not be re- children appear to be more ad- the party. “Is a marriage dissolved af- Manwel Micallef were treated. On divorce January 9 2005 – MaltaToday home peacefully. It’s the qual- coupled with a freedom of infor- On the energy surcharge, Sant quired. vanced at a younger age than their But he did not comment on the ter 20 years simply because the We need to tap into the intelli- “When one talks of divorce in ity of life, not just the standard mation act and a law on the fi- stated that this would be halved Challenged by Georg Sapiano European counterparts because case of the AN candidate who is spouses get used to each oth- gence of everyone to move for- this country there is a strong MICHAEL of living.” nancing of parties. for all families, while small busi- whether the reception class pro- a lot of subjects are crammed at charged in court along with three er?” ward. We have to compete with sense of bigotry… A fervent Cath- FRENDO May 6 2007 – MaltaToday Sant said the Nationalist gov- nesses and self-employed who posal would be imposed on the that age. “When they reach the other defendants in a money laun- PN candidate ernment was hiding behind do not fall under the capping of private school sector by a new age of 14, the picture changes, and dering case of over Lm900,000. October 21 2007 – other countries and we need olic believer should not be tempt- on 9th and 10th MaltaToday everybody’s talent… I am not ed by divorce similar to a diabetic PATRICK district ATTARD impressed by those advocating who cannot eat sweets. It depends AD candidate On cohabiting couples militancy. I am only convinced wholly on the person’s free will 5th and 12th “This is a very tricky situation. by those practising absolute de- whether to succumb to the ‘temp- On Immigration district Major parties duck hunting issue on TVM I think that the church’s posi- mocracy and transparency.” tation’ or not.” “We should give tion is clear and the party has to September 10 2006 – January 9 2005 – MaltaToday full legal protection to people follow this position.” MaltaToday who are refugees or who have hu- On economic Astrid Vella declines invitation as she ‘didn’t have all manifestoes’ October 21 2007 – On gay marriages manitarian status.