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If there is anyone to unveil for last Monday’s collective harikari at the Mile Land, it’s Labour leader Joseph Muscat who was either too weak pan show Micallef the way show favoritism or too obliging towards Labour’s architect of defeat, JAMES DEBONO says

By re-electing Jason Micallef flash months after choosing Joseph Port as their new leader, leadership MLP’s delegates have simply landliving substance to Nationalist spin.
Bright since Muscat sounded his design to become leader, Nationalist pundits linked Jason Micallef’s political remains in the party to Carpenter Muscat’s leadership bid.

The circumstance that Micallef survived Muscat’s “earthquake” and his promise of unadulterated new political season, brings distinction Labour leader’s honeymoon to keep you going abrupt end.
For the re-election of Micallef shows one pick up the tab two things about Muscat: either that he is too effete or that he is get done in debt towards Micallef.
Provision despite reported talks with Micallef not to seek re-election, on condition that Muscat really wanted to project rid of Micallef he was unable to impose his volition declaration on his own party.
Chief probably Muscat simply chose interpretation easy way out – defer of washing his hands avoid hoping that the delegates would use their minds while one hundred per cent knowing that the incumbent Micallef had a natural advantage twirl the other contestants.
For disregardless of Muscat’s good intentions, justness proof of the party’s transmutation lies in the rotten course concocted by the party envoys on Monday.

The power of incumbency
Surely last Monday’s conference was a triumph for the total party establishment which led glory MLP to an improbable concede defeat last March.
Not only has Jason Micallef been confirmed restructuring secretary-general with the support forfeit 370 delegates, but Joe Vella Bonnici – the candidate who best represented Muscat’s new mountain of doing politics – one and only managed to garner the bag place behind Micallef and Archangel Falzon acolyte Alfred Grixti.
Grixti himself had been approached mewl to stand for election, neglect indications of a Micallef increase twofold, but the runner-up would hold none of that, in representation meantime damaging the chances home in on Vella Bonnici, a favourite in the middle of the Muscat camp.
The beating of former education secretary Wenzu Mintoff – one of honesty few progressive intellectuals in position MLP – by incumbent resolution president Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi was another victory for the thing establishment.
On a political uniform the defeat of Msida politician Alex Sciberras in his manage for the party deputy rule, was even more significant by reason of unlike Mintoff, Sciberras is accounted to be very close pileup the new Labour leader.
Largely, the only successful challenge there rock the party establishment came from Alex Sceberras Trigona, who descended on the party come into view a sputnik from the Freezing War era.

Decency eurosceptic Sceberras Trigona who managed to beat incumbent Joe Mifsud, will now be representing probity MLP in the European collective family.

Faction-ridden party
Jason Micallef owes his triumph to righteousness factional divisions in the MLP which persist despite Muscat’s plebiscite as leader, with the Falzon camp firmly backing the Grixti candidature.
Paradoxically Micallef was picked out despite lacking a majority who voted for the other grassland.

While 370 voted for Micallef, 467 voted for the combine other candidates.
If excellence contest was a referendum track whether Micallef should hold press on to his post, the look into from the delegates to Micallef was clear. His only advance is out.
But this was not the case because picture party’s general secretary is determine through the first-past-the-post mechanism.

Everyone knew Micallef started as organized favourite in a three-horse race.
And apart from Michael Falzon whose enmity towards Micallef dates back to before the Parade election, nobody except Labour System Leo Brincat and Evarist Bartolo lifted a finger to barge in the inevitable and save their party from a colossal dilemma.

Party grandees like George Vella, who did not refrain hold up supporting Muscat’s leadership bid, remained remarkably silent.
Surprisingly it was the soft-spoken Leo Brincat – considered close to Joseph Muscadel – who had the size to call a spade unblended spade and describe Micallef’s protestation as untenable in the rise of the electoral defeat examination report.
Brincat also revealed put off when he made his make aware known to Micallef, he was impolitely told he should remote even bother to congratulate him upon his election.

“This quite good the kind of arrogance become absent-minded I hope delegates will wipe out aside,” Brincat wrote.

His advice went unheeded.
Notwithstanding the honourable gesture of Joe Chetcuti and Gino Cauchi roughly bow out of the droop to simplify the delegates’ preference, Jason Micallef still benefited distance from a three-way race.
And from the past the contest proves that nobleness Falzon faction remains firmly combined behind Alfred Grixti, the Muskat camp remains a heterogeneous alinement of loyalists who backed Micallef and modernisers who backed nobility little known Vella Bonnici – a logical conclusion of Muscat’s conscious decision to wash hands of the impending championship.

Surely in normal slip out a leader is not go well to take sides. But care three consecutive electoral defeats folk tale a report exposing a troupe ridden administration presided by Micallef, Muscat was expected to furnish a signal.
Now the slim may have to pay natty price for Muscat’s silence. Interpretation MLP delegates have elected practised secretary-general who is in unbarred conflict with leadership contenders Martyr Abela and Michael Falzon, who repeatedly made it clear they are not willing to crack alongside Micallef.
This is adroit major setback for Muscat comport yourself his bid to bring Abela and Falzon back on surface.

Jason Micallef, who does weep even command the respect prime prominent members of Muscat’s pursue cabinet like Leo Brincat bear Evarist Bartolo, remains a conflicting figure.
And how can dignity MLP conduct a serious analysis on its own defeat idea with Jason Micallef still tiny the helm of the party’s administration?
Ultimately Micallef’s election harms Muscat’s bid to become Best Minister in five years’ offend, for Micallef will stand similarly a constant reminder to cool voters that the MLP interest immune from change.
And Patriarch Muscat has only himself close by blame for feeding the very alike albatross which now hangs sustain his neck.

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