Together no longer

By John Culatto

SOLO Together Gibraltar Opposition

MP Marlene Hassan Nahon (pictured) will not stand as a candidate at this year’s Gibraltar elections.

The TG leader announced her decision to step away from politics ‘with a heavy heart and a soul weighed down by a burden I cannot shake,’ in a social media statement.

The daughter of one of the Rock’s greatest political leaders, Sir Joshua Hassan, said she had ‘tried’ to make a difference but has now realised

Tunneling challenge

THE Spanish government has pledged €2.3 million towards a new feasibility study for a high-speed rail network to Morocco through an underwater tunnel.

The longstanding proposal, known as the ‘Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link’, has now been revived after it was put on hold in 2009.

A joint Spanish-Moroccan commission reconvened for the first time in 14 years back in April, sparking renewed enthusiasm for the initiative.

Funding will be allocated from the European Union’s Recovery, Transformation & Resilience Plan.

It will be funnelled to the Spanish Society of Studies for a Fixed Link through the Strait of Gibraltar.

Marlene Hassan Nahon steps away from politics with’a heavy heart’

‘TG cannot bring the change Gibraltar needs’.

And she said she ‘cannot be part of a potential opposition alliance at this stage’.

The lonely outspoken voice as the only member of Together Gibraltar to be elected into parliament in 2019, said she could not rally people away from the Rock’s political ‘tribalism’.

“I have tried to entice those neglected sectors of our society, and to embolden ‘ordinary’ citizens,” she said.

“But the fact is the support and the love I receive from our people on a daily basis has not translated into activists and candidates ready to take on the mission to transform our politics.”

Hassan Nahon left the Gibraltar Social Democrats to found Together Gibraltar and expressed how she still feels the GSD party she left behind is too different from her own vision.

“I’m afraid that there are still at this stage deep philosophical, ideological and policy differences between myself and the GSD,” she said.

“I cannot bring myself to sacrifice my integrity and principles and ally myself with another party whose general direction on the political spectrum is so different from mine.” While Together Gibraltar had