Hermann Schiavone launches PN candidature
Hermann Schiavone launches candidature for the next general election in defiance of the Nationalist Party and Franco Debono.
Hermann Schiavone officially launched his candidature for the next general election on Friday. The PN candidate did this during an event held in Marsaxlokk, which makes part of the fifth electoral district.
Sciavone has launched his candidature despite being censured and told that he cannot present himself as a candidate by the Nationalist Party's higher echelons in December.
The PN had publically declared that Marsaxlokk activist Hermann Schiavone is not a party candidate, adding that "he has been directed not to present himself as one."
Sunday newspaper Illum is in possession of a number of photographs showing Shiavone and other persons entering an establishment in Marsaxlokk where the event was held.
In the past months, Schiavone was heavily criticised by Nationalist MP Franco Debono who also contests the fifth electoral district.
Debono had internally incessantly called for censure following the Marsaxlokk activist's allegation that the MP could have been behind an anonymous letter sent to the party in 2003 which had cost him his candidature on the fifth electoral district. Debono vehemently denied this and even informed the police.