Everyone in Malta knows government ministers are puppets of wealthy businessmen and powerful lobby groups with no autonomy of their own. But ministers don’t like this fact to be too obvious, and so they go to great lengths to hide their strings using lighting tricks and Photoshop. They don’t always manage though. Here are eight embarrassing photos of puppet malfunctions.
Oops – Prime Minister Robert Abela’s strings on full view during an in interview on ONE TV.
Yikes – Here you can see the strings that connect Ian Borg to his masters in the construction industry.
An environment minister who defends bird-trapping? Maybe those strings have something to do with it.
And speaking of hunting and trapping, here’s Clint Camilleri.
Fun fact: Each one of Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo’s limbs is controlled by a different hotelier.
Shiny young puppet buddies Silvio Schembri and Byron Camilleri.
Julia Farrugia Portelli and Alex Agius Saliba’s puppeteers take them out for a stroll to try and convince the public they’re real people.
And finally, Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis and Nationalist MP Kristy Debono during an episode of Xtra. They’d best be careful not to get tangled up with each other…
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