https://www.reddit.com/r/malta/comments/1ifs6n1/malta_could_turn_into_a_totalitarian_oneparty/
created by ChevalMallet on 02/02/2025 at 07:39 UTC
33 upvotes, 9 top-level comments (showing 9)
Over the last few months we're seeing worse and worse news from our democracy.
All this points that we as a country are on our way to a situation similar to China, Cuba, Hungary or Albania - systems where democracy either doesn't exist, or is very fake and eroded. Malta will no longer be a western democracy and all citizens must be subservient and dependent to a political class which permanently rules over the country.
There are several countries in this situation, but so far this wasn't what Malta was, it seriously changes the aspirations and potential of our country.
How do you feel about this?
Comment by leftplayer at 02/02/2025 at 08:26 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
10 years? Man you’re optimistic…
Comment by ilwOoKiE at 02/02/2025 at 08:47 UTC
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We already are effectively a one party state, and the only credible and effective opposition is coming from a few, very brave, individuals whom we need to unite behind and protect.
Comment by agentmilton69 at 02/02/2025 at 08:57 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
There is no faith in the National party. Journalism and mobilisation through social media is the only way.
Comment by Ironsides4ever at 02/02/2025 at 12:07 UTC*
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It already is. It’s a two party totalitarian state with both parties working far closer together than the Gahan can comprehend.
Case in point .. PN is very restrained and never really attacks corruption. PL did the exact same thing btw. The reason is simply, they want to take over the Apparatus of corruption intact.
And both parties benefit greatly from corruption. That is why opposition is always weak, coz both are earning.
When the situation gets too bad, they switch .. it’s like a tag team from wrestling and it’s just as fake !
But thank you at OP for posting valid points. We are moving into a more dictatorial government and this trend is not just Malta but other countries in the EU. If you are familiar with say Portugal you would be shocked at the exact same corruption and what they have in common, namely the protection of the same people in Brussels.
I just noticed having stop to read your post more careful that you said the same things as me .. I point out clear that it’s an EU problem, stemming from Brussels. You can add a bunch more EU countries to your list .. you just don’t know what is going on .. you only mentioned hungary coz the media had an interest in mentioning that to you.
Comment by Rough-Improvement-24 at 02/02/2025 at 08:41 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If by next election we don't change this government then Malta will become totalitarian within the next 2-3 years not ten years. We should start protesting in the streets now. I can't understand how parliament can change laws like that with a simple majority?!
Comment by austin_mini75 at 02/02/2025 at 08:39 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
thanks for summerising - now i have something to show when their lackeys come knocking
Comment by farfettina77 at 03/02/2025 at 09:59 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
10 years?? We're already there hun...
Comment by JeanParisot at 02/02/2025 at 10:21 UTC
-3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Socialists gonna socialist.
Comment by 2ndAccountOfGazetok at 02/02/2025 at 12:56 UTC
-1 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I don’t disagree with the PL hate and that it’s corrupt and etc. but concluding that Malta will no longer be a western style democracy and saying that’s a bad thing all around, I mean after all it’s the western democracy that got us in this situation to begin with which just proves how unsustainable it really is. I really don’t want to drag myself in this stupid debate, but liberals like you always forget to mention that the above mentioned China as example of undemocratic state has 90 million as direct members of the communist party, not that China has no flaws but claiming its undemocratic is ridiculous and gives democracy only a single definition, ie one where a government is elected one time through a certain period like 5 years and where the people have no real influence in it throughout said term. Popular, active participation in the government directly from the people such as in China I would argue is a better model of democracy rather than western style (whatever that even means) where you have no real say in anything but one time every term. To reiterate, it’s that style of governance that arrived us at this current state of affairs.