Franco Debono sends mailshot to fifth district voters
Former Nationalist MP Franco Debono sends leaflet to fifth district constituents with his judicial reform proposals.
15 January 2013, 12:00am
Jurgen Balzan
Jurgen Balzan
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Franco Debono
Although he would not say whether he would be contesting the 9 March election, fifth district voters have received a leaflet from Franco Debono listing his proposals for judicial reform.
Debono accused PN leader Lawrence Gonzi of only backing a revision in the appointment and removal of judges and magistrates after sending the mailshot to fifth district voters.
Writing in his blog, the former fifth district MP, said: "Lawrence Gonzi, the leader of a party from which I am proud to have distanced myself, must have become aware that I am sending my private members' motion about major reforms in justice and home affairs to all residents of the fifth district. I had proposed years ago what the Prime Minister has just now discovered."
Speaking on Tuesday afternoon, Gonzi said that he favoured a revision of the Commission for the Administration of Justice, the that judged the behaviour of judges and magistrates
In a clear pitch for the fifth districts constituents' vote, Debono wrote: "The voters of the fifth district must know and fully realise, that whilst I did my utmost to propose fundamental reforms, Lawrence Gonzi did not let me work and that their vote was considered as IRRELEVANT."
In December, the Commission for the Administration of Justice begun impeachment proceedings against Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco,following the impeachment motion presented to Parliament by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi.
The impeachment motion against Farrugia Sacco was moved after the judge and Malta Olympic Committee secretary-general Joe Cassar were rapped by the International Olympic Committee in an investigation over the sale of Olympic tickets in 2012.
Jurgen Balzan was a MaltaToday reported from 2011 to 2017.
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@GL Calleja. With all due respect, Franco had the best opportunity in a life time to PROVE to the Maltese and Gozitan people that he really stood to his principles, and that he really cared for the residents of the 5th district! but he wasted this opportunity when there was the motion against Austin Gatt in parliament, because he simply abstained! If he voted against, that would have been a turning point to Franco's political career into a positve one! He only knows the reason why he abstained, but GonziPN managed to make a fool out of him, in politics! What he has done on the 10th December was too little, too late! Anyway, good luck for the future!
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Attaboy Franco! Go for it! The fifth it is.
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Gonzi is at the end of his rope and only the noose remains.
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I am not much of a politician and I am not to fond of certain politicians either. But in this case I would back Franco Debono and the 5th district should follow his lead. It was Franco Debono who stood up to the almighty Austin Gatt when nobody else dared to. It was Franco Debono who initiated the need for the overhaul of our incompetent and corrupt Judicial System. It was Franco Debono that was cast as an outsider by the PM that said that he was irrelevant. Dr Lawrence Gonzi has a lot to worry about because as I always said Franco Debono is not irrelevant at all and he is not going anywhere, he is here to stay. As the man said " He has just began to fight" and that creates a problem for Dr Gonzi and his arrogant one, and they both know it.
