https://timesofmalta.com/article/Constitution-according-to-Franco.401768

This is an article from Times of Malta written by Tony Zammit Cutajar in January 2012. It speaks about the time when Franco Debono vociferously opposed several decisions made by the Cabinet of Ministers of that time. For him (and most people from his generation in Malta supporting either PL or PN) Debono was threatening "to bring down a democratically elected government". The PN government of 2008-2013 was a minority government. For this reason,0 Franco Debono called for the resignation of Prime Minister.He was later been asked to resign from cabinet.Zammit Cutajar also added that Debono’s request also violated the majority of the population that voted for the Nationalist Party.

May I remind Tony Zammit Cutajar that this pressure could also be made by citizens if they feel they have been betrayed by the political party elected to power. I’m pretty sure that Zammit Cutajar didn’t have Systems of Knowledge when he was at Sixth Form. We were taught that "democracy is the power to the people" and not to politicians.This means that people have the right to voice their concerns before and after the election. The idea that a minister who asks for the Prime Minister to resign goes against the population is redundant.

Why am I ranting about this mentality 12 years later? Because nothing has changed since then. People still shun members of parliament whenever they disagree with their own political party.

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  1. What I think you’ll come to learn yourself is that your education on democracy from sixth form systems of knowledge is extremely basic. I don’t know at which stage of your educational journey you’re at, at the moment, but it’s important to note that people study this topic and political systems for years at a high level. This article from 2012 is a simple letter to the editor type of article and just represents a regular person’s view at the time. I don’t agree with him, but he’s no expert on the subject and so it’s a bit useless to bring it up. What I hope is that you’ll come to understand that a system whereby the population have very little say on most matters for the majority of the time, and are only given a vote every 5 years for a parliamentary representative, in an electoral system which strongly disfavours independent and smaller parties, is not a democracy as such and should thus be contested and improved significantly