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6 maltatoday | MONDAY • 2 DECEMBER 2019 NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 In a short introduction, blog- ger Manuel Delia addressed for- eign journalists covering devel- opments in Malta to go and tell the world that Joseph Muscat was not Malta. "Malta is here," Delia said, calling on Muscat to resign. Anthropologist Ranier Fsadni said the country deserved a prime minister who was loyal to the constitution and the coun- try. In what was possibly the strongest speech of the night, 16-year-old student Eve Borg Bonello was scathing in her criticism. "You promised us the best of times and delivered us the big- gest constitutional crisis ever; You promised us Malta Tagħna Lkoll and you helped in the kill- ing of a citizen of this country; to cover up your tracks you as- sassinated Daphne Caruana Galizia," Borg Bonello said. "I am here today to stand for a better future without cor- ruption, without oppression… I dream of a transparent gov- ernment; I dream of a time when people are free to speak without fear of repercussions; I dream of justice and freedom; I dream of a time when Malta does not need not to come out on the streets again like this," she said. Addressing the Prime Min- ister, Borg Bonello ended her fiery speech by decrying Mus- cat's 'evil kingdom'. "Satan, your kingdom must come down. Joseph, your king- dom has ended," she said to ap- plause. Former Nationalist Party pres- ident Mark Anthony Sammut urged Labour MPs to drag Mus- cat out the house. He insisted Muscat's place was not in Castille but on a seat at the police depot to answer about what went on between him, Keith Schembri and Yor- gen Fenech. "You are not our prime minis- ter. You are not my prime min- ister. You are the protector of the corrupt and the assassins," Sammut said. He alluded that as long as Muscat stayed in power, civil disobedience will grow. "In front of injustice, disobedience is a duty not a wrongdoing," Sammut said. Another protest is expected to be held tonight at 6pm while Parliament is in session but ac- tivists have hinted that the pro- tests will persist over the com- ing weeks unless Muscat steps down. 'You are not our prime minister' Simon Busuttil

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