“This can be done under existing parliamentary procedures with due respect for the beliefs and dignity of all sides: those who wish to abstain, vote no, vote yes, on both sides of the party divide,” he writes, stressing that the Prime Minister’s vote, as head of the executive and the person who wanted a referendum is “an unrelated issue”.”
Alfred Sant
“Claiming that some matters are purely political while others are moral and that, therefore, they merit separate treatment by the legislator, is in my view a travesty of what Parliament is there for”
“Bad faith plastered, among others, in the vague arguments of postponement of the divorce Bill, should not be allowed to undermine further the confidence that the people need to have in our institutions, most of all the Constitution and Parliament”
“The State is abdicating its role when it came to providing marriage preparation courses, since it had left them in the hands of the Church. There has to be a synergy between the two if we want to strengthen the family”
Joseph Muscat
“I do not agree with the Nevada type of divorce, where you get it with e-mail, but with divorce legislation that safeguards the interest of children”
“Labour government would give stronger investigative powers to the Auditor-General, particularly when witnesses did not collaborate with him. The Auditor-General would also have the right to reopen the BWSC case,”
BWSC
“When I said I felt I had done no wrong, he insisted I could only get married in the sacristy, even denying me the right to get married in a chapel. I later learnt that a number of priests had urged my wife-to-be to leave me. Can you imagine that?” Despite all this, I still wanted a Church wedding. When Yvonne was asked whether she’d take me as her husband she yelled out ‘yes’, her voice resounding well beyond the thick walls of the sacristy”
Joe Micallef Stafrace
