One of the most damning allegations made by Camilleri is that Economy Minister Silvio Schembri allegedly takes bribes from developers like Joseph Portelli in the form of apartments held for him by other people in exchange for cheap or free land development projects. 

This is one of the many instances of corruption that pushes the government to grasp at straws of power, ensuring that they never have to face the consequences of their unlawful actions, Camilleri explained.

This means that the Labour Party will do anything to make sure that it maintains its political power  – this includes “disrespecting parliament”, interfering in the judicial sector, lying to the public about serious affairs and getting the media to do so too.

Camilleri has therefore repeatedly called Prime Minister Robert Abela a “dictator”, because these are some of the early signs of a budding dictatorship.

Camilleri branded the situation a constitutional crisis for two main reasons: disrespecting parliament and interfering in the judicial sector.

This is exemplified when looking into the situation regarding the Magisterial Inquiry into Jean Paul Sofia’s death, which Camilleri broke down.

Inquiring Magistrate Marse-anne Farrugia was ready to conclude with the inquiry last Saturday, when Abela notoriously went to Sicily, Camilleri claimed.

At this point, Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg asked the magistrate to file a notice notifying of a delay in the submission to confirm that the investigation meets the requirements of the criminal code – this is a routine procedure.

It must be mentioned that Camilleri here alleged that Buttigieg has a “corrupt track record”, claiming that former minister Konrad Mizzi went to her for an executive order for a power station without approval from parliament. This, Camilleri alleged, Buttigieg provided.

Moreover, back to the inquiry – Camilleri explained that, due to her “corrupt nature” and despite her obligations, Buttigieg upheld no discretion with the government and was in contact with Justice Minister Jonathan Attard.

She allegedly provided him with details that she was not supposed to and Abela used that to his advantage, Camilleri asserted.

On the Monday following, Abela held a press conference wherein he allegedly lied to the population by claiming that the magistrate asked for an extension of the inquiry – he did this knowing that the attorney general asked for a notice notifying a delay in the submission to confirm that the investigation is compliant with the criminal code.

During the press conference, Abela lied and stated that the inquiring magistrate requested another extension to the magisterial inquiry, Camilleri said, adding that Abela attacked her multiple times and in different ways.

Thus, Camilleri explained that some Labour supporters who are stuck in a pro-government digital echo-chamber will believe that the inquiring magistrate was scared by Abela’s speech and hurried to conclude her investigation thanks to his pressure.

Abela further announced a public inquiry which Camilleri said was both disrespecting parliament and humiliating his own MPs considering the decision against such an inquiry was taken just days before.

He did not say this to criticise the issuing of a public inquiry, rather he highlighted the concerning dynamics wherein Abela utilised his executive power by going against parliament’s vote seemingly to save face.

“He may have executive power to announce a public inquiry but that does not necessarily mean that he can disrespect the parliament – irrespective of what it is deciding.”

“This is the first time we’ve had a situation like this where a prime minister explicitly disrespects parliament and goes against its vote.”

Camilleri went on to claim that Saviour Balzan, owner of Malta Today was allegedly paid by Abela to conduct damage control and public relations for the “fraudulent campaign”. Hence, the newspaper began to recycle the announcement of the government alleging that the magistrate asked for an extension.

“The problem is that when you repeat a lie several times is that people start to believe it.”

“From what I know, we’ve never had a PM that creates a fraudulent local campaign with the help of a state funded newspaper to attack the magistrate.”

Camilleri went on to criticise Abela for attacking a magistrate with “integrity” rather than one who is actually corrupt “like Donatella Frendo Dimech”, Camilleri said.

He alleged that Frendo Dimech is in contact with defense lawyers of people who are accused in her courts, dropping names like Franco Debono and Joe Giglio here. Such magistrates are actually in contact with Abela, Camilleri argued.

Camilleri went on to illustrate the consequences of Labour’s corruption on Malta’s current energy crisis.

“Instead of fixing the electricity infrastructure and making it efficient, the Joseph Muscat administration made two corrupt deals: those of BWSC and Electrogas.”

Both of which, resulted in Enemalta incurring a loss, so much so that it is now essentially bankrupt, he claimed.

“This is what happens when you have incompetent people who care about themselves and their friends running a country.”

On the topic of energy, he criticised Energy Minister Miriam Dalli’s ‘hedging’ deal, dubbing it as on of the worst possible relevant deals and claiming that it is indeed, not hedging.

Camilleri explained that in April of last year, Dalli had to buy gas from new suppliers and fed into the “Russian propaganda” regarding an infinite and prolonged increase in gas prices as a result of the war to deter states from supporting Ukraine.

“Gas is an abundant commodity which is found in many places and can be extracted easily – the problem is one regarding the global supply chain, not the availability of resources,” Camilleri said.

Hence, once the supply chain issue is figured out, the price of gas will lower once again.  Moreover, Labour bought a lot of gas pegged to the price changes of oil rather than gas.

Now, since a lot of states are investing in gas supply alternatives, the gas prices are dropping while oil remains high – meaning that the Maltese government is paying high gas prices while Electrogas makes a profit and Enemalta makes a loss, Camilleri said.

“So despite the myths that Joseph Muscat saved Enemalta, he didn’t save Enemalta, Enemalta is bankrupt.”

Furthermore, Camilleri went on to point out that the fight is not just against corruption, but it is against ignorance too and he believes that the population is indeed becoming less ignorant.

However, here lies another problem. The skilled and capable Maltese people are now leaving the country because of the abysmal state that it’s in, he explained with lots of understanding.

Ultimately, to face the endemic corruption weakening island and its systems, Camilleri urged for a critical citizenry, a complete change in government and for the nationalist party to let go of some of its conservative ideologies by compromising on issues like abortion.

Moreover, if Camilleri’s allegations are true, then Malta is indeed spiralling into a dangerous and undemocratic situation wherein the members of the ruling party will do anything they can to maintain their power, even if it is at the expense of the wellbeing of the citizens.

Do you think that Malta is enduring a constitutional crisis?