The Nationalist Party leadership race is already exposing the rotten foundations it’s built on. This week, the façade of unity and integrity crumbled as Adrian Delia and Alex Borg publicly contradicted each other about a secret pact.
Alex Borg boldly told Times Talk that no pact ever existed, dismissing the idea outright and portraying himself as a champion of democracy. He insisted he felt compelled to contest for leader to give supporters a choice, branding any such pact as “undemocratic.”
But Adrian Delia told a very different story. In his own interview, he confirmed that there was an agreement between them: that if one runs, the other would stand down. Delia’s words were clear: “It’s what you’re saying and more than that.” Yet he tried to spin it coyly, saying he wouldn’t speak about it further because Borg is “not comfortable” discussing it.
So which is it? Who is lying?
Because someone is. And this is the real scandal:
– If Alex Borg is lying, he is misleading the Nationalist grassroots and manipulating his own narrative to look clean and democratic, when in reality he broke an agreement behind closed doors.
– If Adrian Delia is lying, he is manufacturing stories about secret pacts to play the victim and paint Borg as dishonourable, in a desperate attempt to win sympathy votes from a party that never fully trusted him.
Either way, one of these men is lying bluntly, without any remorse. And this is the Nationalist Party’s leadership choice: two candidates who can’t even tell the truth to their own delegates. Two candidates who expect to lead the country when they’re already lying about their own deals and intentions before the campaign has even begun.
How can Nationalist supporters trust either of them?
How can the Maltese electorate trust a party led by men who lie so easily and shamelessly about their most basic agreements?
This leadership race is proving what many already knew: the PN is not renewing itself – it is rotting from within, led by candidates who prioritise power over principle, deception over truth, and ego over country.
