FULL pOLITICaL ELECTION SpECIaL ELECTIONS COVERAGE SIX PAGES OF 6 pHOTOS aNd dayS TO gO REpORTS pgs 6-11 mIssue 5 • Moday,alta 03 March 2008 • www. tMaltatoday.coodayM.Mt PrICE €0.50 / LM0.21 TEARS FOR FEARS Pullicino Orlando cries as Mistra disco shocker embarrasses ‘green’ politician pg 5 NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL MPs declared company income after reaching tax agreement LABOUR MPs Charles Man- enue department. day forced to come clean over gion and Karmenu Vella yester- With accusations flying from the missing income in the ac- day said they only declared the the Nationalists accusing them counts they presented to the income they made from their of having filed “false declara- MFSA after the PN published company Mirca Properties Ltd tions”, and the two MPs filing Mirca Properties’ accounts over eight years, in 2003 and for libel against Nationalist MP to show that their rental in- 2004 – after reaching a tax Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, the comes had not featured in their agreement with the inland rev- Labour members were yester- records. pg 5 3 Charles Mangion and Karmenu Vella - ‘we’ve declared our income’ 159, Labour Avenue, Naxxar Tel: 2388 0088, 7939 2939 paper post News 2 maltatoday election special | Monday 03 March 2008 news news Monday 03 March 2008 | maltatoday election special 3 On the record James Debono digs into the archives to fi nd what candidates have been saying on a variety of issues over the years Jeffrey Pullicino Franco Galea Joe Abela Alex Sciberras Victor Galea Angelo Xuereb Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando PN candidate on 7th and there are certain bus routes that silent when confronted by this 17 February 2008, Illum brings to bear.” 11th districts Maltese citizens can’t use?… That situation. Refugees and irregular On divorce 1 June 2007, The Times there is prostitution outside some migrants are fellow human be- “I believe that the time has come of these centres…? That there are ings with a right to live. As a peo- for a serious discussion on di- On his ‘first time’ On cement plants and landfills incidents between immigrants ple we cannot remain indifferent vorce. Personally I am in favour “The first time I voted AD was “If developers had their way on and Maltese people, and that in front of the death of migrants but it shouldn’t be the government in the MEPs’ election” the cement plant the health of these incidents are on the rise?” in our seas. Black skin or white which instigates debate on this is- 12 December 2006, MaltaToday most Maltese people would have Adjournment speech in parlia- skin makes no difference. Life has sue. Between 1996 and 1998 the been affected. Had we developed ment, December 2005 no price.” government had appointed a com- Angelo Xuereb AN candidate on 11th and a landfill next to Mnajdra we 3 June 2007, Illum mission to study the implications 12th districts would have committed an act of On solutions of introducing divorce. It was an disrespect against our ancestors “It is a question of space and On divorce attempt to instigate discussion on as well as against future genera- resources – we don’t have that. “This was what happened to me this topic. But the need for such a On the extension of development tions. Just imagine toilet paper That is why we need to create safe in the divorce question, when I debate was felt in civil society”page 4 boundaries blown by the wind on the face of zones. I can’t mention any names expressed opposition to divorce. 17 February 2008, Illum “Yes, I agree that after a lapse the Neolithic megaliths.” of other places which would be Fellow MPs and leadership people of around 15 years and in the ab- 30 July 2006, MaltaToday suited for safe zones. It would be had actually praised me for tak- sence of approval of most of the ideal to have them created in Af- ing a stand. But what happened? Victor Galea Local Plans, the building zones On the extension of development rica.” The people in your district start AD candidate for Gozo had to be reconsidered and in- zones 24 July 2005, MaltaToday saying you are turning against the creased… This, in return will help “I cannot risk leaving this sensi- leader. Some people don’t under- On house visits in Gozo reduce the pressure on property tive task to a future Labour gov- On racist labels stand that the fight for your seat is “Wednesday: I dedicated this prices, which are ever increasing. ernment. I hope that the PN will “You can be labelled incorrectly against your very own colleagues day to home visits. At one point, I have not gone through all these win the next election but I cannot because of other peoples’ agendas, in the district.” we noticed a car following us additions, but from what I under- afford to take any risks. Had we even in the case of the far right. If 10 August 2003, MaltaToday while in Kercem. The people in stand, these additional parcels of left this chapter open, in the re- somebody is worried about the the car thought that I am stupid. land are relatively small and are mote eventuality of a Labour vic- country, who am I to tell them On Labour’s future Of course I realised that one of located on the periphery of the tory, Alfred Sant would have had a they are incorrect? My duty is to “I think Labour’s greatest chal- the men was calling people via his existing development zones.” free hand to adjust the boundaries talk about it.” lenge is how to collect everyone mobile instructing families not 21 May 2006, MaltaToday on a case-by-case basis.” 24 July 2005, MaltaToday under one umbrella. If you take to open the door. This was con- 30 July 2006, MaltaToday the right-wing coalition in Italy, firmed later by three families ex- On his humble origins KARL SCHEM- On Christmas spirit Berlusconi manages to keep one cusing themselves for not open- “I started off 25 years ago from BRI On Ramla l-Hamra “In the final session before team together including Bossi ing since they are ‘afraid’ from the very modest beginnings… My “Like Ulysses Lodge the Verdala Parliament’s Christmas recess and his separatists, Fini’s far-right three men in the car. How funny. first contract was of some Lm200, hotel is an eye-sore which ruins Galea suggested all MPs donate party, the Christian-Democrats The three men in the car were laying curbs along a pavement in the landscape. But it is legally Lm1,000 from their parliamen- and his party… Labour needs to helping me acquire some new Balzan, employing just two work- WITH the two difficult to deny the developer tary honoraria towards a fund to cultivate a hegemonic bloc. It can- votes. These tactics are of old... ers. I remember how at the time I major parties me- a permit to replace an approved organise Christmas parties for not afford to alienate certain peo- and self-destructive. When will didn’t have enough money to pay ticulously avoiding structure.” all employees of the civil service. ple away from the party. We have these people learn?” them for more than two weeks the spring hunt- 24 June 2007, MaltaToday Galea said rather than using civil to converge on our ideas and find http://victorgalea.blogspot.com at a stretch but I was very deter- ing issue tonight service employees for political a middle road. mined to be successful, I think on TVM, one of On the Mistra land revelations gain because of Christmas par- 10 August 2003, MaltaToday On the devil that construction was in my blood the leading voices “I own a plot of land near the sea ties, it would be better for MPs to “Worse again, others still opt to and I wanted to make a name for for environment which has been rented out to oth- lead by example.” Alex Sciberras sell their political freedom to ‘the myself.” protection will be MLP candidate on 9th ers for some time now. Three years 19 December 2004, MaltaToday district devil’ himself. I refer to those un- 6 December 2000, The Business skirting the debate ago, these others applied for a per- able to freely vote because they Times altogether as its mit to build an underground lava- Joe Abela have made expedient pacts in chairperson said tory and an open-air dance floor MLP candidate 3rd District On his more ‘rebellious’ days return for political favours from On the value of agriculture she did not have less than two metres high. The “The time I spent in Graffitti people in power, favours they “Agriculture only contributes time to read all only thing close is a well-known On hunting and cannabis and Alternattiva Demokratika know in the depth of their souls two per cent to the economy manifestoes. restaurant. The application has “Today it is almost better to have was a time of political education they had no right to in the first while tourism generates 40 per Flimkien Ghal been pending all this time and a field sown with cannabis than to because in these organisations place. In selling their souls to ‘the cent. It is obvious which is most Ambjent Ahjar no final decision has been made. go with the shotgun in your own ideology is given great impor- devil’, they have sold their free- important of the two. It’s all about chairperson Astrid I don’t even know the applicants.