With your permission I'll be the proud mum again today. One of the local independent Sunday papers carried an interview with my son  Alex who, as I wrote before in this blog, will be contesting the up coming General Elections in Malta - a two page spread complete with large photos. [Picture above]

The paper, and therefore the interview, are in Maltese but the title is a quote from something Alex said at one point. He was talking about his party and said that when he first joined he felt immediately comfortable there because it filled him with a sense of can do.

It is a hard hitting interview asking a lot of tough questions but I think Alex did really well in his replies. This is not something I'm saying only because I'm his mum. It is also the feeling one gets when reading the opening and the closing of the interview, which are basically the journalist's own impressions. I shall translate faithfully for your benefit:

"You will not see his face on the Nationalist Party billboard which identified those candidates of the Labour party that have been around for years. Alex Sciberras is one of the the new faces of the MLP.

Although he is only 25 he has been the mayor of Msida since 2006 and represents a rare new political generation that participates in politics because of its ideological beliefs not because of any personal convenience. At least that is the impression one gets when one speaks to him."

..... the text of the interview follows and then the article ends...

"The interview ends here and as we leave the building Sciberras is stopped by a man who asks him for his autograph on his visiting card, as if he is some famous actor or football player. Visibly embarrassed Sciberras turns to me and says: This is the first time this has happened.

Who knows, maybe this is a sign of how the electorate will receive this young candidate when they cast their vote in three weeks time."