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3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 23 JANUARY 2022 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications COVID restrictions: letter to PN THIS is a public letter to Partit Nazz- jonalista and will be sent to the mem- bers of PN and also to some associations and media representatives in Malta. Partit Nazzjonalista – It seems like you don't even try to win the election. Have your leaders been promised nice benefits by Labour if you stay in the comfortable zone for both parties? Or are you afraid of your own messes com- ing to light? If that is a false then first of all you need to stop that tired jargon about what "Malta deserves". That sounds pa- thetic and makes you look like a weak and like a fool. What is the most important for Mal- tese and for all of us – can't you see? People want freedom. Malta and Mal- tese have struggled much worse times in history. So you never should under- estimate the people. No matter how hard the things are the life is not worth living if we are not free. Masks over our children? Third year without real childhood and school? It is shocking that the teachers union has become the enemy of the children and education in Malta. And how it is possible that the sports and rare enter- tainment are restricted under a "health crisis"? You need to promise the freedom in Malta – meaning that if you win the election all the covid restrictions will be removed. No vaccine passports, no cov- id related entry forms, no covid tests, no limitations in events and restaurants etc. If you do that you may very well have your victory this Spring. Howev- er you need to make a clear statement (with no room for doubt) that under your government it would be the first thing you would do. That there will be no restrictions towards travel, schools, entertainment etc. in any circumstance. Otherwise the PN is just another variation of communism. And Labour does it better (at least the majority be- lieve so); and that is the reason you are constantly losing. You have spoken very carefully towards supporting free- dom, but you haven't made any credi- ble stance. You leave the door open all the time just like the Labour. So no one takes you seriously. And that is your problem overall. If you fail to win the election and make the changes. Forum For Freedom are required to begin a campaign in Malta that will be hundred times what Caru- ana Galizia did. This is a promise. Pol- iticians must understand that the only mandate you have for your position is from the people. After all you stand there only because the Maltese people let you. And you are under their review more than ever in our lifetime. Tomi Juhani Siikaoja Founder, Forum For Freedom Via email Macron posturing on abortion READERS of your newspaper might think French president Emanuel Ma- cron's brave new vision for Europe - legislating abortion rights into the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights - means an end to Malta as Europe's last bastion on abortion. But as a former employee of the Com- mission services, I can tell you that the process of convening a political discus- sion and agreement, for an inter-gov- ernmental conference that can discuss this proposal, is long, difficult... and I dare say, close to impossible to happen in the current climate. Macron is simply doing all he can to rustle up any vote he could take up from the left, and he does this by press- ing the right buttons on identity issues. John Daly, Brest