You promised to publish your campaign finances. Words are cheap; accountability is not. Publish the books — or be prepared to be exposed.
Alex Borg spent Friday evening on a sleepy Q&A stage promising voters “transparency” and insisting the Nationalist Party is “united and focused.” He even vowed to put the party’s and his campaign’s finances in the light of day — a welcome claim, if sincere.
But words like “transparency” and “delivery” mean nothing without paperwork. Borg has announced crowdfunding initiatives and a flurry of managerial reshuffles designed to project competence — a neat PR package, but still PR. If the man who now runs the PN truly believes in openness, the obvious first step is not a new “delivery office” or a glossy CEO appointment: it is the unvarnished publication of every account, every donation, and every penny that paid for his campaign.
Make no mistake: voters are tired of rhetoric. They want receipts. They want names. They want dates. They want to know if big-money interests quietly shaped the messages his campaign sold to the public. If Borg is genuine about renewal and rebuilding trust, transparency must be more than a sentence in an interview — it must be an immediate, public act.
So here’s a clear message to Alex Borg: publish the full financing of your electoral campaign now — not “in the coming days” or “shortly” — the entire trail: bank accounts, audited statements, individual contributors and amounts, corporate donors, in-kind contributions, crowdfunded totals and who controlled that money. If you are proud of your supporters, stand proud and let everyone see who those supporters are. If you fear what the ledger will show, don’t expect your obfuscation to last. We will press. We will investigate. We will publish what you try to hide.
Accountability is not selective. You cannot pick and choose when you are for openness and when you are for secrecy. If Alex Borg wants to lead, he must first accept the light. Refuse to comply, and the public will rightly ask why. We will not take platitudes for proof. We will not accept warm words in place of cold, verifiable numbers.
Publish the accounts. Publish the donors. Show the invoices. Prove that the “new hope” is not a rebrand for the old ways.
Alex – keep your word. Transparency is the price of credibility. If you fail to deliver, be careful: we will expose the truth.
