Structures and living in truth – Ray Azzopardi

When the Nationalist Party’s new statute was approved, in June 2020, it was reported that it affirms that the PN is a party of the people with a vocation that serves the interest of the common good and works for the sake of human dignity. What has come out in the open, lately, by prominent members of the party like Jason Azzopardi, a former MP, and Albert Buttigieg, mayor of St Julian’s, shows that something is defective in the party structure. For Buttigieg to state that he has been betrayed and to ask “Is this the price I had to pay for standing up to be counted?” one has to conclude that there are cracks in the system. For Bernard Grech to claim that individuals who go public to “attack” the party are not doing it with good intentions is to ignore reality.  No, it is not enough to state that internal structures exist to solve such matters. Structures that obstruct freedom of opinion and that aim to keep the status quo should be pulled down. Why should people like Azzopardi and Buttigieg seem to be rebels when, in fact, they are exposing the cracks within the system? Václav Havel, in his book The Power of the Powerless, labels such a flawed system as one “of ritual signs that...