FOIPN president Jamie Vella has questioned whether tomorrow’s Malta Pride march risks becoming an exercise in “pinkwashing”, linking the event to the fallout from Yorgen Fenech’s acquittal last week.“There can be no Pride without Justice,” Vella wrote, arguing that justice and inclusion are “inseparable conditions of a free society”.Referring to the Fenech verdict as “absurd”, Vella said it had exposed “how precarious these times are – and how readily impunity can prevail”.“Tomorrow’s Pride march cannot be insulated from that reality,” he said. “Will it become an exercise in pinkwashing, offering political actors a convenient stage on which to display their ‘progressive’ credentials? Or will it live up to what Pride was always meant to be: a protest against injustice, silence and the abuse of power?”Vella also questioned whether organisations working with marginalised communities could “march comfortably alongside those whose actions – or silence – have helped deepen that marginalisation”.“Pride welcomes everyone, but absolves no one,” he concluded.Vella heads the Nationalist Party’s Equal Opportunities Forum.Yorgen Fenech was found not guilty of complicity in the wilful homicide of Daphne Caruana Galizia and criminal association following a 55-day trial earlier this month.•