{"id":305035,"date":"2025-07-30T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305035\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:30:12","slug":"claudette-buttigieg-in-tears-while-speaking-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305035\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudette Buttigieg in tears while speaking about mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nationalist MP Claudette Buttigieg broke down in tears in parliament when speaking about Karl Gouder and Jan Pace, stating &#8220;we aren&#8217;t doing enough&#8221; to tackle mental health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltatoday.com.mt\/news\/national\/131130\/pn_announces_passing_away_of_former_mp_karl_gouder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Gouder<\/a> was found dead in September 2024 at just 45 years of age, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltatoday.com.mt\/news\/court_and_police\/135966\/missing_man_jan_pace_found_dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Pace<\/a>, a 36-year-old hairdresser, was found dead a few weeks ago. Both men took their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>In parliament,\u00a0Buttigieg was speaking about mental health\u00a0when she mentioned the pair, having worked with Gouder in the PN, while Pace was invited to one of her TV programmes when he was a child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both of them had many people who loved them,&#8221; she said tearfully. Buttigieg voiced her frustration at the fact that after such deaths, many shed a tear for them at their funerals, but no true change takes place.<\/p>\n<p>She turned her attention to the effects drugs and alcohol have on mental health, speaking about a rise in drug use during parties.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg narrowed her focus on the negative effects of &#8220;the cycle&#8221; of gay men exposing themselves to risks during chemsex parties. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pull our heads out of the sand and take a look at what&#8217;s going on in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MP ended her appeal in tears, explaining that almost a year has passed since Karl Gouder&#8217;s death, &#8220;and I feel that we aren&#8217;t doing enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone struggling with mental health problems can seek help through a variety of resources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltatoday.com.mt\/help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationalist MP Claudette Buttigieg broke down in tears in parliament when speaking about Karl Gouder and Jan Pace,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944555462324595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}