Mr Picardo says he has the “fulsome support” of Ministers. If so they should all say. Yesterday Ms Arias-Vasquez said
she backed a Chief Minister who has been found to have attempted to interfere in a criminal investigation. What do
others say?
Leader of the Opposition, Keith Azopardi said: “The GSD have brought a Motion of No Confidence against Mr Picardo
which is on the Parliamentary agenda. Ministers will need to decide whether to back him or sack him and there will be
no hiding place on the issue when the time comes.”
It’s now been over 2 months since the Government received the Inquiry Report and almost three weeks since
publication.
In all that time no Minister has said anything about the Inquiry Report except for Ms Arias-Vasquez’s forced answer
during the course of an interview on another subject. Given the serious findings that the Chief Minister acted
improperly and attempted to interfere in a criminal investigation it is remarkable that Ministers think they can get
away with silence.
The reality is that silence is acquiescence and amounts to support of the Chief Minister. Sooner or later all Ministers
will need to pronounce themselves on this question unless of course the Chief Minister is scared of allowing each
Minister a free vote on the issue and seeks to amend the No Confidence Motion to prevent them from voting on
whether they have confidence in him.
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