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5 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 28 DECEMBER 2025 LOOKING BACK 2025 A look back at the best quotes from the weekly interviews with various protagonists from the political, social and cultural spheres The The cracks have cracks have started to show, started to show, in more ways in more ways than one than one PAGE 3 PAGE 3 editorial PAGE 2 interview James Roberta Metsola's Houdini act When assisted-dying, not look medical from and team people person considerations suicide, There is widespread consensus in the party that she [Metsola] is best-placed to bring the different factions together, give the PN a modern identity and provide a strategic direction to take the party out of its current predicament. Mikiel Galea equality and the equality and the environment are environment are interconnected interconnected PAGE 6 PAGE 6 equality and the equality and the environment are environment are interconnected interconnected PAGE 6 PAGE 6 BYRON CAMILLERI Home affairs minister We shouldn't break anyone's rights and I think our track record shows that we believe that people should be given a chance to rehabilitate themselves… ROBERT LOUIS FENECH Moviment Graffitti activist We do not want the government to simply give the compa- ny all the extensions it wants; we've heard they may need until 2033 to finish the project… MARK PORTELLI MIDI CEO What we wanted to do in terms of identifying an investor to join MIDI on the development of Manoel Island was to find someone who could provide equity. EDITH DEVANEY MICAS artistic director e idea of digital art or sound-based art and installation and performance art… all of that's possible. Absolutely. We're looking at all of these things. MARK ANTHONY SAMMUT PN MP Everyone is human, and everyone has moments when emo- tions take over. However, it is a reality that during the past few years, the Speaker has not always acted objectively. EKATERINA ZAHARIEVA European Commissioner We would like to support governments and we are preparing a campaign to show our citizens that science is about our dai- ly lives and not just labs or something that people don't see. ALEX BORG Opposition spokesman for Gozo We have a lot of work to do. But over the past years under the leadership of Simon Busuttil, Adrian Delia and Bernard Grech, we were an effective Opposition. LARA DIMITRIJEVIC Lawyer and women's rights activist The judiciary should have some sort of guidelines. If not guidelines, there should be something which binds them at law. SILVIO SCHEMBRI Economy minister e metro study has not been abandoned. What is hap- pening now is a study to determine which is the best mass transport method to have. JOSEF BUGEJA GWU secretary general I cannot understand how there are employers, and they are in a minority, who abuse and profit at the expense of miserable work conditions for their employees. ALFRED ZAMMIT Valletta vice-mayor You have to make room for public space. ere should be signs placed on the pavement that indicate where tables and chairs are allowed. JAMES BUHAGIAR Humanists Malta Chairperson I am a big fan of palliative care, and humanists agree with me. e problem is we are dividing and splitting the two. at does not make sense.