Yesterday evening, Occupy Justice Malta staged a protest outside parliament to ‘highlight the fact that politicians and government appointees, elected and nominated, respectively, to serve the country are, instead, using their positions of privilege to pillage the country’s coffers for their personal gain.’
Donning pig masks, some of them visibly butchered, the group explained in a statement that it is evident that ‘these individuals have no qualms about feeding at the trough and lining their own pockets with undeserved wealth.’
Accusing the government of treating the population with contempt, the group said that the recent WhatsApp chat revelations between Rosianne Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech ‘proved, black on white, what we already know – only this time it was coming from the horse’s mouth.’
The group lamented that these individuals ‘seem to belong to a clique of untouchables, who are above the law, abetted and aided by crumbling institutions that have been weakened by lack of good governance and an absence of checks and balances.’
‘The disrespect with which voters are treated is disgraceful and, in some cases, criminal. Of course, our dormant Police Commissioner and Attorney General have done absolutely nothing to rectify the situation, and it is only thanks to the relentless work of courageous journalists and civil society activists that the acts of these disgraceful, greedy politicians have remained in the spotlight’ the statement concluded.
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