Watch: Beauty On The Ballot? Mark Camilleri Suggests PL Chooses Woman Candidates Because Of Their Looks
Mark Camilleri has suggested that the Labour Party selects its female political candidates based on their looks.
“Daphne [Caruana Galizia] spoke a lot about misogyny within the Labour Party. For example, why, God bless, are all their female candidates good-looking? (‘Għala, Alla jbierek, dawn il-kontestanti tagħhom kollha nisa sbieħ jagħżluhom?’),” Camilleri said on a Repubblika podcast yesterday.
“This is all inbred misogyny within the PL, which uses women like this and not because it truly believes in feminism and because it wants to give a chance to everyone.”
Camilleri was invited onto Repubblika’s podcast on the day a court acquitted him of insulting and threatening former PL Rosianne Cutajar after ruling that the prosecution had filed the wrong charges.
Camilleri was also recently ordered by the Data Commissioner to delete the WhatsApp chats between Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech that he had published on his blog last year. He has said he will defy the Data Commission’s ruling.
On Repubblika’s podcast, he defended his decision to publish the chats in full, including those which had private, sexual references, by arguing that even those were in the public interest.
“I published all the chats, and those included verbal, erotic exchanges which had sexual references. I didn’t censor them and the Data Commissioner is saying I should have deleted them,” Camilleri said.
“I think that if you are using sex in the public and political domain, it is our right to know. If you, whether you are a man or woman, are using your sexuality and sex as a mechanism for public power, it is in the public interest for us to know this.”
“If you are sleeping with this person and that person, and because of your propensity, faculty and facility to sleep with people, you are obtaining more power, then we have a right to know.”
He said he feels he cannot delve into the topic more deeply simply because he is a man.
“If I was a woman, I would be able to speak more. Daphne used to speak about these things a lot, and we don’t have anyone who does this anymore.”
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