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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 11 NOVEMBER 2018
OPINION
that must surely be his biggest regret – but now?
Not a chance...
Paradoxically, this also explains why Joseph
Muscat clings so doggedly to that tiresome,
repetitive line. Yes, of course he is going to 'await
the outcome of the ongoing inquiries' into 17
Black (and all the others, too). He has no choice.
Oh, and another thing he doesn't have (which he
may well have had, in the case of Egrant) is the
'certainty' that those inquiries will exculpate his
government on all charges. By definition, that is
a certainty that is beyond his reach…. depending,
as it does, on the truth or otherwise of allegations
concerning people other himself.
So, in the end, Joseph Muscat is left with no
choice but to wait for an inquiry that may well
prove to be his own downfall.
But then, that's a certainty that his detractors
don't have, either. So even if it's for all the wrong
reasons, the only course of action that remains
open – not just to Joseph Muscat, but to every-
one else, at this stage – is, in fact, to await the
outcome of those inquiries… and then base one's
judgment on the established facts.
And besides: in case everyone's forgotten… our
own, very recent collective experience strongly
suggests it might not be such a bad idea after all.
In the end, Joseph Muscat is left with no choice but to wait
for an inquiry that may well prove to be his own downfall
