Adrian Delia bows to the same clique that stabbed him in the back — proving he never had, and never will have, control of the PN.
Adrian Delia just dropped the mask.
Speaking to journalists outside Parliament on Tuesday, Delia was asked the simplest of questions: Would he remove the very MPs who engineered his downfall? The likes of Karol Aquilina and Beppe Fenech Adami — the very faces of the internal coup that forced him out of leadership.
His answer? A weak, submissive no.
Delia declared that if he is re-elected as leader, he has no intention of kicking anyone out of the Parliamentary Group. Translation? Beppe stays. Karol stays. The whole poisonous clique stays. And that tells the entire story.
Adrian Delia has just confirmed what many Nationalists already fear: that Beppe Fenech Adami is still the de facto leader of the Nationalist Party. Delia, despite all his talk of reform and renewal, has already accepted he will never truly run the show.
If Delia is so powerless before getting re-elected, what authority will he possibly hold once he’s back in the hot seat?
This is not leadership — it’s capitulation.
Delia’s statement is a slap in the face to every Nationalist delegate who believed that his return would mean a clean sweep, a fresh start, or the end of the old guard’s grip. Instead, he’s already kneeling before them.
Fenech Adami
The truth is out: the Nationalist Party is still in the iron grip of the Fenech Adami dynasty. The surname may change, but the control never does. And Delia? He’s just the frontman for a band he doesn’t even direct.
This is not a leadership bid. It’s an act of surrender.
