Is the GRECO REPORT an analysis of the current state of the Nationalist Party and its politicians?

Nationalist Party Leader Adrian Delia has flung himself on the published GRECO Report not like a drowning man desperately clutching at a last and final straw but like the long lost son who at last has found his father, his mother, a long-lost family and indeed a whole lost tribe!

He would have us believe that this report is “this-is-what-I-have-been-telling-you-so” justification of the current state of the country.

In truth, it is nothing more than the current state of his own Nationalist Party and all its many factions, in which his seems to be the minority faction, a limited faction of admirers who lick his very shoe laces. A greater faction seems to lurk in the background continually sharpening knives and a further faction looks on both these factions with utter disgust.

This Adrian Delia is a man who lives on illusions and delusions, far removed from reality. As each situation backfires he jumps onto the next bandwagon without for one moment thinking about what he says and the consequences of what he says.

I have read this report closely and its 23 recommendations and have the following pertinent questions to make to Adrian Delia and all the factions that surround him:

For example, when the report recommends that politicians be of high standing and high standards, did they have Adrian Delia himself in mind, a politician who is the Leader of a Party and the Leader of the Opposition yet has accusations lingering over him of having profited by earnings from a London Soho brothel? In addition, allegations of having laundered and banked this money illicitly and in recent days the emergence of an alleged link between the former husband of the sister of the former Leader of the Opposition Simon Busuttil who was ousted by Delia? The former husband is a son of a man alleged to have managed the London, Soho brothel. False and forged signatures have been mentioned to cap all the shady dealings.

These alone contain enough material to put the James Bond 007 stories in the shade!

Or perhaps the high moral standards of politicians had David Casa in mind, a politician who has been accused of being a former cocaine addict and of having profited by the misappropriation of EU cash?

Or even further perhaps GRECO was thinking of previous PN Ministers under whose charge an alleged racket of oil commissions was highly active in which even a relative is alleged to have been involved as well friends and aides alleged to have been close to Ministers?

Another recommendation is the way transactions are carried out on the sale and lease of public lands. What did GRECO have in mind? Perhaps Il-Fekruna, or the Lowenbrau deal or maybe even the Spinola deal?

A further recommendation is the control of corruption and shady dealings. What did GRECO have in mind – the building of Mater Dei Hospital ... or perhaps the new Parliament building?

The more one reads in the report, the more one is led to conclude that the whole is simply an analysis of the current state of the Nationalist Party and its politicians as well as that of past Nationalist Party Governments.

In his usual naive, ham-handed manner, Delia is trying to shift the goal posts as the GRECO Report being an indictment of the present Government.

Dear Dr Delia, it is far, far, far from that. Think about it – for a change.

ALBERT JEROME FENECH