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As the leader of Alleanza Liberali (Malta Liberal Party) I wish to bring to the attention of the European Union the way politics are made in Malta especially regarding the elections be it Local Council, General and European Parliament elections. This in the way the two main political parties the Partit Nazzjonalista and the Labour Party control the Electoral Commission, the Broadcasting Authority and all the Media be it TV, Radio, Newspapers, road billboards and all. The way that they already began the electoral campaign for the 2014 EP election and the way they exclude us from participating in all the Media, they do not report our activities, they do not invite us in political debates like we do not exist and so on. I have been reporting this to the OSCE and for the first time the OSCE sent observers for the March 2013 General Elections and the conclusion was as I said and this can be confirmed with their report published at the end of May 2013. After this report still we are passing from the same problems. Can the EU see to this so that in Malta we will have true democratic elections for the first time because all the past elections were biased, some by the interfierence from the Catholic Church and others by the strict control of the main two political parties that they do not allow new or small political parties to have the chance to at least elect one member of the Maltese Parliament or in the European Parliament. Thank you. – Dr. John Zammit – http://www.malta-liberals.org
In Spain is the same. The Individual Freedom Party founded already 4 years ago has even had to fight in court for their General Elections Madrid constituency back in 2011 because the bipartisan political control of all public institution is so ferocious that they could influence on the the Central Electoral Committee to try and prevent us from presenting. Spain hasn¡t had a truely genuine classic liberal party since immemorial times and all the barriers that the system arises is to prevent from reaching civil society: a hidden electoral reform forcing extraparlamentary political parties like P-LIB to go on the streets and gather an enormous amount of individual signatures so they can be allowed to run for elections, signatures that force people to make public a serie of personal date that many aren’t to pleased to do it, not to mention the fact that it can be seen as an understatement that you some who vouch for this or that party, violating to some extent even the secrecy of the vote the Constitution protects for instance. At the same time we are very worried with the EU itself and the fortress they are building in order to keep new parties and new ideas from reaching Brussels and spreading into the European civil society. As Civil Society Movement Secretary at P-LIB I’m always struggling to explain associations and other civil society related entities about the danger of hiperegulation in the EU that burdens and many times makes it impossible for minorities and those of us who do not sanction this way of governing to even have a fair chance to appear as an alternative to the actual status quo of PP and PSOE and their white brands IU, UPyD or Ciudadanos, whicha are all mare socialdemocrats with very small diferences offering the same pillage, lootering and excessive regulation to empower them even more. Roxana Nicula, Civil Movement Secretary at P-LIB: http://www.p-lib.es