PN turns guns on Labour campaign manager
PN secretary-general questions business interests of Labour campaign manager.
17 February 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
The Nationalist Party issued a scathing 'exposé' of Labour leader Joseph Muscat's campaign manager in its media, by calling into question his business interests.
PN secretary-general Paul Borg Olivier today said the PN media "had uncovered" the face behind the Labour campaign - Keith Schembri - a person who has been widely associated with Muscat since his election to the party helm in 2008.
A low-profile character, Schembri's role behind the desk has been to carve out Labour's campaign strategy together with Labour's chief executive officer James Piscopo and communications coordinator Kurt Farrugia.
But Borg Olivier has insisted that Muscat should explain "what his relationship is with this businessman who runs the fourth floor" - a reference to the offices where Labour runs its campaign from at the Mile End headquarters.
Schembri, 38, is a director of his family business Kasco, paper merchants who have extended their group of companies into the graphic art industry, waste recycling, foodstuffs, and other industrial supplies.
The PN's slow build-up to giving a face to the ideas-man behind the Labour campaign has long been coming, since Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi made reference to the hallowed 'fourth floor' at the Labour headquarters, where the party's campaign nerve-centre is located.
Equally, the Nationalist Party's own campaign and strategy team members include the former secretary-general Joe Saliba, a director of two subsidiaries from the Vassallo Builders Group of PN donor Nazzareno Vassallo.
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PBO should DESCRIBE what his relation with ZV is, and what was discussed on ZV super yacht while on holiday with ZV.
How hypocritical puerile can you get?
After the election you will have a lot of explaining to do and justify your unprofessional behavior.
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The persons running the campaign media should be thanked and given a medal. Prosit!
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So what? The PN forget that they have coaches like Peppi Azzopardi, they have the money. How did they manage to reign for 25 years?
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Sad Case Paul Borg Olivier. When will they fire you from that post?
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Just continue on this road PN you are really heading towards a precipice! Just look at the polls.
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It is pretty clear that GonziPN have run out of arguments and are in a very sorry state due to the whole Eneemalta scandal and its repercussions. In a GonziPN campaign that is becoming more and more negative by the minute the people of Malta and Gozo are to expect any sort of senseless attack - like ths latest one. I will not be surprised if they will soon start picking on any blogger who does not support them this time round.
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Jiena lil Schembri ma nafux u lanqas jinteressani min hu. Li hu zgur imma, li l-PN gew 'overwhelmed' bil-kampanja organizzata u effettiva li qed ittelghu l-PL. Miskin Borg Olivier, mhux ahjar jghidilna l-campaign manager tal-PN min hu, hux Saliba, Gatt, RCC jew is-sahhara u min qed jaghlfu?
