The word democracy is being used a lot during a time wherein decisions need to be taken about the future of the PN. There are those who on the social media define democracy in ways that are worry, and act in ways that is definitely the antithesis of how a truly functioning democracy should be. The definition of democracy by those who vehemently support Adrian Delia is that once a leader is chosen he has to remain at the helm whatever happens. This is no democracy. They fail to realise that a true democracy is an ongoing process, and that if a leader fails to deliver, or his leadership is put to question by a reasonable number of activists, a new ballot is required.
It has been more about thuggish behaviour, crass language on the social media, and no substance at all, than a true debate on how we wish to see our party today and in the future. This opportunity to renew our party has become a platform for thugs to show how thuggish they are, and the myopic to manifest a trait that only brings stultification, and no good to our party and even less to our country. What politicians say about being close to the people has become chaos at its worst. It has become an excuse for party members who support the current leader to attack on Facebook all those who refuse to adopt a myopic attitude, and who are more inclined towards being constructive. Facebook is being used by Delia supporters to attack the activists, MPs and MEPs of our party. They are acting as their judge and executioner, and when all this happens no one in the current leadership bats an eyelid. This is the situation that our party is in. And, whatever the result is this Saturday, things will have to change if any progress is to be made to our party, and its prospect of becoming a stronger opposition is possible.
We cannot have thugs lurking in front of Dar Centrali, threatening journalists, and activists who do not share their unquestioned loyalty to the current leader. Under Delia's leadership, our party has become unrecognisable to what it was under past leaders, and not in a positive manner. The New Way is as negative as we could get. Adrian Delia hasn't brought progress to the PN. He has transformed our party into one in which MPs are followed and spied upon by his closest aids, threatened and ridiculed on private Facebook pages, and humiliated by a mob. He has created an environment in which activists are being called all sort of disparaging adjectives by some of those who have been part of his entourage ever since he decided to contest the leadership election in 2017. A look outside Dar Centrali bears witness to this
This comes with no surprise, when considering that Delia's rhetoric during the leadership election could be defined as nothing other than rabble rousing. When he became leader, his approach did soften to some extent. Yet, those who he holds close to him, his henchmen (so-to-say) still share the kind of bullish attitude that attracted them to him in the first place. His inaction has made the mob stronger, transforming our party from one wherein thoughtful debate happens freely, into one in which mob rule is rife. The idea of being close to the people and opening the doors of the Dar Centrali has become an excuse for mob behaviour. Moreover, the voice of the mob is given priority over that of the elected MPs, who represent not only the party members and activists, but all those who have voted for them beyond the party affiliations. The party is being held hostage by the mob, and their leader is no other person than Adrian Delia. For that reason alone Delia has to go.
Politicians are there to lead. It isn't the mob that leads, but politicians who look into their needs and come up with solutions. Being close to the people doesn't mean that everything they say or do is acceptable, or that politician should take their solutions as the solution to the problem. Politicians are there to find solutions to the problems, and to do so they need to understand what the problem is by being close to the people. Allowing the people to come up with solutions for the party, while rubbishing politicians in the process by calling them the establishment that should be thrown out was the worst thing to do during the leadership election. Delia sought simplistic solutions for complicated problems. This is so typical of the populist movements we are seeing today. The establishment includes the free press who were attacked by thugs in front of Dar Centrali.
