In the new year, I will continue the campaign that is already proving successful: the campaign to reclaim the Great Siege Monument, to cleanse it from the grip of the Defnisti extremists, and to return it to the Maltese people, where it belongs.
The controversy surrounding this monument was not created by the Maltese people. It was manufactured by a small, radical clique that thrives on division, provocation, and the permanent hijacking of our national symbols.
For the Maltese people, this is not a so-called “Daphne monument.” This is the Great Siege Monument, a monument that unites us, not one that tears us apart.
I will continue to insist that foreign ambassadors have no role whatsoever in this manufactured controversy.
An ambassador has no mandate, no moral authority, and no democratic legitimacy to interfere in Malta’s internal affairs, to take sides in domestic disputes, or to lecture the Maltese people from a position of diplomatic privilege. Malta is not a colony. Malta is a sovereign state.
Diplomatic representation does not grant a licence to denigrate our country, distort our history, or endorse extremist narratives pushed by a loud minority.
If a handful of ambassadors feel compelled to lay flowers for the so-called “Queen of Hate,” then they should do so in Bidnija, where the murder took place, and not at a national monument that belongs to the Maltese people and symbolises our collective history, sacrifice, and unity.
National monuments are not diplomatic stages. Our sovereignty is not optional.
Malta will not be instructed, shamed, or morally occupied by foreign actors who refuse to respect our people, our symbols, and our right to decide for ourselves.
