While The ‘Establishment’ Was In Power, Robert Abela Lived In Verdala Palace And Erected A Marble Plaque In Honour Of His Daughter
As Prime Minister Robert Abela continues to paint a pitiful picture of himself and his party being victims of the “establishment“, it seems that he’s forgotten where he was when the Nationalist Party was in power and his father was the President of Malta.
Digging through the archives of the Running Commentary, one can find two articles written by Daphne Caruana Galizia eerily reflecting today’s situation.
She reported on now Abela’s “hideous arrogance” in talking about the “old clique that ruined the country before 2013” and called him out for being one of the prime beneficiaries of the PN’s time in power.
“‘The old clique,'” i.e. today’s establishment, “made his father head of state, allowing Abela junior, his pushy wife and her money-grabbing sisters to run riot all over the Community Chest Fund, San Anton Palace and Verdala Palace for five years, with Robert and Lydia Abela even having a marble plaque affixed to Verdala Palace to mark the baptism of their baby.”
“And before that, ‘the old clique that ruined the country before 2013’ gave Robert Abela and his father the contract for legal services to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority, which he and his wife Lydia are still milking 16 years later. Between 2001, when they first got the contract, and 2011, they billed the Planning Authority for €1.23 million in fees. They are estimated to have billed a further €500,000 in fees in the six years since.”
She went on to point out that this was one of the Nationalist’s “more corrupt/crony moves” as it was a way of ‘thanking’ George Abela for his support in the drive to EU membership, “against the Labour Party”.
“Which brings me to how “the old clique that ruined the country before 2013” took Malta into the European Union, with the full support and involvement of Robert Abela’s own father, working behind the scenes, while the Prime Minister to whom Robert Abela is so busy sucking up now was fighting tooth and nail to keep Malta out of the EU.”
“Do Robert Abela and his clique know that his father worked behind the scenes on the campaign for EU membership and that he worked particularly closely with Prime Minister Gonzi in this regard?”
“He must do – which only makes his behaviour all the more disgusting. He leeched off his father’s closeness to Prime Minister Gonzi, milking that situation to his advantage, and now he and his wife are leeching off Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for all they’re worth.”
“Robert and Lydia Abela’s sense of entitlement, their arrogance – and above all, their sheer ungracious bad manners, greed and avarice – are horrendous. He may not look like a bogan – she most certainly does – but that is exactly what they are, given their behaviour.”
It’s clear that if the PN is the establishment, or at least was in its prime, then it was never at the detriment of Abela, despite his repetitive weaponisation of this rhetoric especially during this last week.
Who do you think the establishment is?
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