Arnold Cassola: PNPL discriminate against women

The PN and the PL do not care about women. They are just using them as objects to be able to increase their power in parliament and in the whole country.

What has happened?

They are now discriminating between PNPL women and all the other women in Malta.

An example: If we vote for a woman who is not with PN or PL, they will count all votes first and see which 65 candidates are elected to parliament.

Then they choose the first twelve women who will be co-opted.

If the woman you voted for is number six in the list, they will kick her out and replace her with woman number 13 because she is with PN or PL. 

A second discrimination vis-a-vis me as an electoral candidate is that this mechanism goes against my rights to freedom of association.

Women who wanted to contest, not with PN or PL, are very much put off now because they find this discrimination against them. They are now thinking twice about contesting the elections.

PL and PN have done a big disservice to the dignity of Maltese women and we must fight it.

Independent politician and university professor Arnold Cassola has filed a judicial protest against the gender corrective mechanism, asking for the constitutional amendments to be revoked and withdrawn.