Speaking against a backdrop that ironically is the corporate emblem of the authority that only allowed them five minutes airtime on the national broadcasting station, Alpha Party’s Emmy Bezzina and Imperium Europa’s Norman Lowell delivered their speeches yesterday outlining their beliefs in view of next Saturday’s general election.

While Mr Lowell announced that his political spot would be aired tonight on TVM, Dr Bezzina told the people listening to him at Great Siege Square what the Broadcasting Authority should do with its five minutes.

Dr Bezzina people should discuss important issues and not “waste time discussing the blues and the reds or those who want birds to fly and those who want to shoot them” while parties spend thousands of Euro in their campaigns.

He said the law courts had become “a nest of libels” as each party is trying to block each other by suing each other.

“I am (also) running for the local council of Valletta,” he announced saying that the capital city was in a filthy and disgraced state.

Turning to national politics, Dr Bezzina reminded people that he would be contesting the first and ninth districts and that his name would be at the very top of the ballot paper.

He denounced corruption which he deemed was rampant and criticised the main parties for turning a deaf ear to the pleas of gays and people who want divorce to be introduced in Malta. Dr Bezzina also called for a pluralist society where people of different faiths live together in mutual respect.

Norman Lowell took the stage after Dr Bezzina in a dignified gait and raised his staff to the people who acknowledged him with cheers.

He said that the media vilifies him and his comrades yet they have grown stronger. Mr Lowell denounced the merits of a heterogeneous society which said that it erodes freedom.

If elected in parliament, he promised that no boat bearing illegal immigrants would make it to the shores of Malta as they would be stopped at 14 miles and made to go somewhere else. “We would be like a fullback man marking a centre forward,” he proclaimed.

He urged 11th and 12th districts voters to vote him, and cried “Lowell L-ewwel”.

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