PN turmoil

A prominent former secretary general of the Governing party has joined the list of dissidents opposing the strategies of the Nationalist Party administration. Victor Ragonesi, in an interview with the Times, is urging more Nationalists to publicly oppose the tactics adopted by their own party's leadership in relation to the withdrawal of candidates from local government elections. According to The Times he stated that the Nationalist Party was generating a feeling among the younger generation that politics is something to despise because it is "dirty". He added that the PN should become "more democratic". In defense of the Nationalist Party, the anonymous Fausto Majistral questions the credibility of Mr Ragonesi by quoting the historical accounts of Herbert Ganado ( political leader who later left the PN to set up his own party) who had disagreed with Ragonesi's tactics back in the 1950's. From Fausto's Malta9Thermidor blog:

Herbert Ganado's excellent autobiography recounts the events going on the Nationalist Executive Committee in 1958, his differences with Dr Borg Olivier over Mintoff and Party organisation, his exclusion from the Executive Committee and, finally, a resolution of censure against him the "passing" of which was engineered by Dr Ragonesi. Ganado quotes from a letter, written and published by a relative of his Dr Albert Ganado, on how Dr Ragonesi prepared a written declaration against Herbert Ganado and singled out members of the Executive Committee and had them sign the declaration...

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