PN denies ‘personal life’ allegation posted by election2013 Facebook page
Election2013.com’s Facebook page posts claim that PN planning to ‘drag Muscat’s personal life into the mix’
An official statement by the Nationalist Party has given fuel to the fire of a month-long whispering campaign on Labour leader Joseph Muscat's personal life.
The PN denied being behind claims that it would "come out with a story" on Muscat's personal life - claims first made on the Facebook site of electoral website www.election2013.com.
According to its Facebook post, posted at 3pm, election2013.com said: "We are hearing rumours around the water dispenser [sic] that PN are planning to come out with a story on Joseph's Muscat Personal Life in the last week of the election campaign. As we said these are only rumours so far However some more concrete details are leaking like: what the story is about.... so PN planning to drag Joseph Muscat's personal life into the mix??... is it an all time low for politics in Malta ??... who knows !, we'll just wait and see..."
In a denial, the PN said this was a fabricated story and that it was "strongly denying the allegation and disassociating itself it in the most categorical of manners. The PN does not believe this is the way of doing politics."
The election2013.com website is the property of Avante Systems, an IT consultancy firm whose contact as listed on the site is business development manager James Catania.
Attempts to contact Catania - who at some point campaigned for the pro-divorce referendum - on his cellular phone proved futile.