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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 MARCH 2022 OPINION 3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 16 APRIL 2023 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications Lessons from Trump? BERNARD Grech refused to speak in Parliament on a motion which he and his PN had presented, just because the time for debate had originally been agreed to end at 7pm, even after the Speaker had informed him that the time lost during the debate would be compensated. This was caused solely by the Op- position's wilfully destructive tactics by continuing a cacophony of "points of objection" in order to stop the prime minister from exposing the Opposition's manipulation of Mr. Justice Francesco Depasquale's sen- tence in the VGH/Steward conces- sion, to add the time for the Opposi- tion leader to make his speech. But Bernard Grech and his gang must have had a pre-planned ob- jective. Grech said that he was not allowed to speak in Parliament, and hence would make his speech outside Parliament where a crowd of diehard PN supporters had been urged to gather! So Bernard Grech refused the Speaker's offer to make his speech, and walked out of Parliament accom- panied by all the PN MPs, relinquish- ing voting on their own motion! The far from "pacific protest" out- side Parliament only needed a spark to turn into an unruly mob. The spark was provided by Grech when he incited the crowd yelling the words: 'Qumu minn hemm!' three times while gesticulating wildly with his arms! That was the signal for the crowd to increase its cacophony of insults addressed at the Labour parliamenta- ry group and ONE News journalists. Who knows whether – had there not been steel barriers separating the unruly PN crowd from parliament – they would not have imitated Donald Trump's supporters' actions when they attacked the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives on Capitol Hill? Is Bernard Grech taking lessons from Donald Trump? Eddy Privitera Mosta Donald Trump