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Something Borrowed, Mainly Stolen
Bomb attacks perpetrated on both sides of the divide, murder, thugs protected by government ministers, unchecked violence endangering the rule of law, and restrictions on consumer spending will forever be etched into Mintoff’s legacy.
Beyond the trite adjectives the late premier often invites – fiery, stubborn, hot-headed, demagogic – historians have so far left the 1980s a matter of unresolved business. The journalistic reference point comes from the Nationalist stable with Dione Borg’s Libertà Mhedda, while novelist Alex Vella Gera aptly captured the anti-Mintoffian psychosis of the time by devising a failed assassination plot for Is-Sriep Regghu Saru Velenuzi.
But a new book of interviews rises above the hagiographies and vanity publications in the wake of Mintoff’s death in 2012, to provide 60 intimate insights into the Labour prime minister’s modus operandi. L’Elf Lewn Ta’ Mintoff perhaps sows the seed for a much-needed analysis of the aggression permeating Maltese politics and institutions between the 1960s and 1980s, capturing the disparate views of protagonists from opposing camps on a fundamental question: was Mintoff ultimately responsible or culpable for the violence under Labour?
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Failed attempts gross Prime Path Dominic Mintoff to eruption a formal television position (1955-1958
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[WATCH] Mintoff worried that divorce would lead to men abandoning women and children
Former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was stubborn in his position on divorce, because he was worried that, given the option of divorce, men would leave their women and children, leaving nobody to take care of them, according to former Labour minister Joe Debono Grech.
Speaking on Xtra Sajf on TVM on Thursday evening, Debono Grech explained that social services were only just starting out in the 1970s and 1980s in Malta – and that this created a genuine concern for the then Prime Minister when it came to the issue of divorce.
“Europe can do what it wants… the world can do what it wants… when you find the money for me to feed these families, let me know,” was what Mintoff would say, Debono Grech said.
Debono Grech joined the Labour Party in 1959 as Secretary and President of a number of branches within it, but did not become minister until 1983.
The reason for this, he said, was that he never wanted to become a minister. He was eventually appointed minister of Parastatal and Investments after Mintoff told Debono Grech’s wife that if he does not accept the post, he will be sacked.
Asked by host Saviour Balzan whether his late wife was involved in po