PBS's new rules force Lija councillor to resign

PN Lija councillor Jeremy Anthony Dalli has resigned from his post on the local council after the Public Broadcasting Services produced a new set of guidelines for its workers.

This morning, the PBS launched a new set of rules regulating its workers, emphasising impartiality. One of the guidelines prohibits PBS workers from "expressing public support for any political party or express views or lobby in favour of or against a policy which is a matter of current party political debate or a matter of public or industrial controversy; stating in public how one intends to vote or how one has just voted in an election or referendum; endorse political candidates".

Sunday newspaper Illum, two days ago, reported that Dalli was responsible of coordinating a number of programmes, including political, while at the same time campaigning with the Nationalist Party as a councillor.

After the publication of the story on the same day, Dalli informed the Lija council that he was resigning from the council as this was in breach of the PBS guidelines.