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There cannot be many who are smiling in the Nationalist Party these days, except maybe Simon Busuttil and those in his camp, who did their best to make it hell for their party leader, Adrian Delia. For months they fought him tooth and nail, and it was obviouWill the bloodletting resume? - Roger Mifsud
There cannot be many who are smiling in the Nationalist Party these days, except maybe Simon Busuttil and those in his camp, who did their best to make it hell for their party leader, Adrian Delia. For months they fought him tooth and nail, and it was obvious that Delia had no say with a considerable weighty wing of the party. The bloodletting was made in public too. There were casualties on both sides in what became internecine warfare, and the war was not only disloyal, it was also vicious. It was the Nationalist Party that suffered the worst. Why the war was launched remains a mystery to me. Perhaps Busuttil resigned the party leadership after the thrashing he got in the 2017 general election in the hope he would be asked to stay on. Or perhaps he genuinely felt that Delia could not be good for the party as its leader, carrying baggage as he did, which was heavy ammunition for the Labour Party to use. But Delia had been elected by the party organs and I do not know that Busuttil did anything to chastise them for it. If he did, he did so in private, unlike what he did against his leader. Mind you, I have no insiders in the PN to feed me information. Delia must go, of course. Read more