Anġlu Farrugia: I’ve lost faith in Joseph

Labour’s outgoing deputy leader Anġlu Farrugia yesterday parted from Joseph Muscat in acrimonious fashion, saying he had lost faith in the PL leader. Yesterday morning, Dr Farrugia published a two-page letter tendering his resignation sent to Dr Muscat on Thursday, which shows the bitterness of his departure. “I feel that in the current circumstances, since I have lost faith in you, it would be in the interest of the Labour Party that I resign from this post,” Dr Farrugia wrote. The Labour leader responded by leaving a door open to Dr Farrugia and insisting he was still “very relevant”. Dr Farrugia was forced to resign on Thursday after saying in a speech on Sunday that a magistrate had displayed political bias in a case he was involved in. However, the former deputy leader wrote that, since Dr Muscat did not understand anything in his speech, he felt there was no need for him to contest the next election. Explaining that while in his speech he did not mention the magistrate, Audrey Demicoli, by name – nor her father, who in the early 1990s served as an assistant general secretary of the PN – he wanted to point out that members of the judiciary should declare their political...