The political maturity promised by the PN Leader ended after the first setback, and control was again taken by the same extremists who have long been dictating the Nationalist Party’s narrative.

The Nationalist Party still thinks it has a divine right to chose who it wants without any process and no scrutiny, even when it comes to appointments to judiciary.

Even worse so, the words of national unity appear not to have reached the Shadow Minister for Justice, who continues to follow the negative and outdated narrative of the past.

Instead of agreeing with Minister Jonathan Attard, who at a press conference stressed that it is our duty to protect a sensitive selection process by keeping it away from controversy and politicisation, the Nationalist Party tries to influence that same choice and politicise this process.

The Nationalist Party, which in the past used to appoint relatives and friends as judges without any scrutiny, has no credibility in speaking about the process of appointing members of the Judiciary, with the European Court of Human Rights describing the Court at the time of a Nationalist Government as an “an unacceptable blissful all-in-the-family Jamboree”.

Today, the appointment of judges is held through a public call, scrutinised by an independent Committee, and a final decision by the President of Malta.

Politicians should not and should never interfere in this process.

The political maturity promised by the PN Leader ended after the first setback, and control was again taken by the same extremists who have long been dictating the Nationalist Party’s narrative.