MISSION IMPOSSIBLE for Louis Galea; there are NOT ENOUGH psychiatrists in Malta to enable the Nation
Former PN Minister Louis Galea aged 71, a Party veteran (I remember him once being denounced by his own brother in ‘L-Orizzont’ because he came from a mainly Labour Party family), a Member of the Nationalist Party’s General Council and Executive Committee since 1972 and a former Member of the Administrative Council from 1975 to 1987. He was also the Party’s Secretary General from 1977 to 1987, was first elected to Parliament in 1976 and was more recently Malta's representative at the EU's Court of Auditors.
He has been charged by current PN Leader Adrian Delia to take a year “reforming” the Party and presumably making it electable once more.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE! I do not know whether he proposed his appointment, or whether he was handed it – willingly or unwillingly. What is clear is that he has a difficult, nay, impossible task of sifting the sheep from the goats and the sheep and the goats from the pigs. Without a shadow of doubt – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!
The magnitude of the task is the equivalent of being asked to climb Mount Everest bare-footed or otherwise, to entrap the Four Winds and capture them in a plastic bag.
His main allies will surely have to be a battery of psychiatrists to try and analyse all the main people involved and then to find another battery, this time of psychologists, to try and put their minds straight.
To begin with, there are not enough of either profession in the Maltese Islands to be able to meet the exigencies that currently exist. In my opinion the human resource in this sphere cannot cope with the demand, as follows:
David Casa – four psychiatrists at once;
Roberta Metsola, Simon Busuttil and Jason Azzopardi – three psychiatrists at once;
Manwel Delia, Andrew Borg Cardona, Pierre Portelli, Clyde Puli, David Agius and many, many others, at least one full-time psychiatrist.
Yes indeed, a daunting time and task for Louis Galea and I feel sorry for the poor chap. He has been condemned to spend a whole year in a labyrinth of serpents.
I pray he can survive it.
ALBERT JEROME FENECH
