Letters to the editor – June 6, 2026

Celebrations and the law

Charles Micallef of Qawra writes:

At 77 years of age, I have never witnessed such a civilised and well organised election campaign, where the focus by both party leaders was their policies. 

They maintained their focus on the policies till the very end of the campaign.Malta has finally  matured,  so I thought… until we came to the celebrations by the winning party, when traffic laws were completely ignored for a day  and  the police literally having to turn a blind eye and the rules and regulations to be broken, if not massacred.

Blatantly flouting the law. PL supporters were seen hanging out of cars and trailers while celebrating their party’s win at the general election. File photo: Times of Malta

How can the police commissioner look at the minister of justice at the end of the day and report that all went well? As we all saw on TV, people were allowed to hang out of car windows, holding on for their dear lives, not to mention trailers making a mockery of the same traffic rules and regulations. Again, why did insurers not remind drivers they are not covered if accidents happened in such circumstances?

Why are we waiting for a tragedy to happen before taking action? Whatever happened to the laws being  equal for all and at all times? 

Passengers in a car must be pre-warned they must fasten their seatbelts or face prosecution, without fear or favour.

Yes, of course, there is an alternative. Nowadays, we have appropriate and safe double-decker buses, which are used worldwide for those who want to celebrate.

The matter can also be addressed easily if the political parties issue a joint statement in this sense before election day. The police can then do their job in a serious and professional manner, as they should.

Productive merger

Timothy Alden of Żebbuġ, Gozo writes

With reference to the editorial ‘The duopoly’s firmament stays intact’ (June 3), I would like to draw attention to the absolutist objectively incorrect statement that the merger with “Partit Demokratiku provided absolutely no value to the Greens”.

Half of the election candidates during this general election are former members of Partit Demokratiku, including Sandra Gauci herself, who joined PD the year of the merger and was nominated to form part of the new joint ADPD executive committee representing PD by myself.

Specifically, Mark Zerafa, Melissa Bagley, Marcus Lauri and Gauci are all essential human resources resulting from the merger. Furthermore, PD transferred more financial resources to AD than AD possessed at the time.

An argument can be made that not all PD’s voters continued to vote for ADPD after the merger and I personally know more conservative voters who preferred to switch to the Nationalist Party. However, the perception that the merger was not productive is erroneous and further does not account for the human resources who have participate in the new party from the PD side who are not visible.

Anyone who works in third parties knows the biggest limitation is people willing to work or show their face.