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Updated | Labour ‘PN wasting time with rumours’, Paul Borg Olivier dubs Muscat ‘bigmouth’
PN secretary-general Borg Olivier brands Labour leader Joseph Muscat “bigmouth” for preempting Labour plans to target Pullicino Orlando in 2008.
25 July 2012, 12:00am
Jurgen Balzan
Jurgen Balzan
2 min read
PN secretary general Paul Borg Olivier.
Nationalist Party secretary-general Paul Borg Olivier branded Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat a "bigmouth" after MEP Simon Busuttil revealed to MaltaToday that Muscat told him about Labour's intentions to target Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando over a proposed development in Mistra, shortly before the 2008 election
Borg Olivier held a press conference this afternoon, but did not invite MaltaToday to the conference - while in a press conference yesterday, Borg Olivier failed to invite media houses from Union Print and the Labour press. A PN spokesperson later apologised for the organisational mishap.
In a statement issued afterwards, the PN secretary-general said: "Labour is finding it hard to accept what is now evident, Muscat is a bigmouth who seeks to ingratiate himself with everyone. He first blabbers to show he is 'in the know' but he blames others when he gets in trouble for it. This is childish behaviour."
In a reaction, the Labour party said it had already issued a denial to Simon Busuttil's claim.
"This is becoming a childish affair. It's clear that Simon Busuttil is associating himself with these rumours to be included in the list of MPs with higher ambitions like Beppe Fenech Adami, Tonio Fenech and Mario De Marco," a party spokesperson said.
"It is unfortunate that in the day that statistics confirmed the increase in unemployment, GonziPN allowed Paul Borg Olivier to call an urgent press conference that waste everybody's time by repeating rumours that have been denied.
"Labour is not interested in these games. The Maltese people await concrete solutions to the economic recession. Instead GonziPN is giving us a broken party and a split government."
Speaking to MaltaToday, Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil revealed that it was a casual conversation between himself and Labour leader Joseph Muscat - who at the time was still an MEP - that led the PN to suspect a Labour campaign targeting Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando over a proposed development in Mistra, shortly before the 2008 election.
"I can confirm that I was the person with whom Joseph Muscat spoke," Busuttil said yesterday in a text message reply to questions sent by this newspaper. "The information he disclosed was more than enough for me to easily conclude that JPO was the PL target. I immediately passed on this info to my secretary general, Joe Saliba."
"Muscat spoke and boasted about knowing of Labour's plans in a private conversation with Simon Busuttil." He added that Muscat also hinted at what was brewing within the Malta Labour Party on television on 25 February 2008.
The PN secretary-general added: "Muscat spoke and boasted to demonstrate that he knew what the MLP strategy was and by doing so he pulled the rug from under Alfred Sant's feet and removed the surprise element in Labour's plans [to target Pullicino Orlando].
Jurgen Balzan was a MaltaToday reported from 2011 to 2017.
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PBO-A worthy replacement for RCC. LOL !!!!
Luke Camilleri •
.....just call him Pawlu paprati, his pet-name at Dar Centrali - The king of E-mails !
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Pawl,mela ħa nagħmlu bħat tfal.....forsi JM kixef l-istateġija tal PL. Min kixef lil PN li qed iżommu ir-records personali tan-nies? Ħhallina PBO, mur għamel kors kif tuża l-email forsi jirranġawlek għal CEO ta Smart City
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U ghal mument id-dinja kollha waqfet il bierah wara nofs in nhar biex tisma lil PBO jitkellem fil konferenza stampa, u wara li spicca milli kellu xi jghid kullhadd infaqa jidhaq kemm jiflah. Prosit Pawl il pajjiz xi hadd bhalekk ghandu bzonn f'dawn iz-zminijiet difficli.
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So we must be cautious when saying something during a casual conversation with Simon Busuttil . You never know , it may not remain all that confidential and casual.
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PBO this Poor Basic Organizer thinks he discovered the holy grail how pathetic.
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And we should call you MR Emails Pawl?
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KEMM QIEGHDIN SEW !!!!! L-ewwel il-bravu pawlu borg olivier (dak li shabu stess minn wara daharu jghidu li ma jiswa xejn) ilu mistohbi tliet, erba' xhur sakemm ghaddiet it-tempesta ta' FRANCO DEBONO u PULLICINO ORLANDO u halla lil gonzpn jitkaxkar wahdu fil-hama .... imma issa li minghalih ghaddiet il-burraxka, qed jerga' jitfacca ... IL-BEBBUX JAGHMEL HEKK !!!!! u bhalu issa qed jerga' jixref rasu wkoll il-BUSU !!!! - dak id-delegat preferut minn gonzipn biex johodlu postu fil-pn malli l-poplu jkaxkru minn kastilja fi ftit xhur ohra !!!! mur gibu li kieku fih xi sitt piedi u nofs kemm jaghmel aktar arja l-busu ta' hal lija !!!! Hallina tridx busu, mhux ahjar tmur tbiegh xi musmar jew xi granpun jew xi bicca fidiferru minn mannarinu - x'aktarx taqta' figura isbah !!!!
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The gaffe prone PN secretary general is persisting in a case which at worst demonstrates the back stabbing skills of some within his party.Let us for arguments sake assume that Joseph Muscat on a plane in an off the record chummy situation spoke with a fellow MP and let inadvertently slip some words which the cunning Simon Busuttil exploited by relaying them to the then PN secretary general. At most this shows that you cannot trust some PN elements even in social occasions and it is best to give them wide berth for they will back stab you at the earliest opportunity. Alfred Sant learnt this when in his generosity and principled approach to government he left some leading NP appointees of this type in the high public positions they had previously occupied.
Nadia Farrugia Olivari •
nobody belives you any more,this is happening before each genreal election
Raymond Bonnici •
"Einstein" PBO should concentrate his efforts on the disastrous situation in the PN. I think the bigmouth is PBO himself ghax xeba jaqa' ghan nejk. Veru l-aghar SG li qatt kellu il-PN!
Raymond Bonnici •
"Einstein" PBO should concentrate his efforts on the disastrous situation in the PN. I think the bigmouth is PBO himself ghax xeba jaqa' ghan nejk. Veru l-aghar SG li qatt kellu il-PN!
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"It is unfortunate that in the day that statistics confirmed the increase in unemployment, GonziPN allowed Paul Borg Olivier to call an urgent press conference that waste everybody's time by repeating rumours that have been denied. JEKK DAN HU HELA TA ZMIEN GHAL PL,GHALINA M'HUWIEX. DAN JURI NUQQAS TA MATURITA JEW FORSI OPPORTUNIZMU MIN MIN QED JASPIRA LI JSIR PRIM MINISTRU TA MALTA.
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Who cares? Can somebody from the pn please tell this idiot to bloody shut up? Does he really think we are THAT stupid? Why doesn't he comment on the discrepancies about our gdp? How come there have been no reaction from the pn regaring the 75% figure and why is the lp not firing all guns against this? Will they please stop this awful bickering and get to work solving the problems we are facing? We dont care about who the f.... said what to who? Do your f..........job instead. This is so pathetic. Shame on you pbo. Shame on you. We,ve had enough and we're not gonna take it anymore.
Micheal Bonanno •
Please do continue, Dr. PBO and co. What you're doing is telling the electorate that you've taken it for a ride in 2008. You have managed to hoodwink the maltese electorate into believing the innocence of JPO. But, in fact, you were part of a charade, which was aimed to hide the corruption so inherent in the PN government. The PN was an accomplice in this charade, and as EFA said "Min Ma jiggieledx il-Korruzzjoni hu Korrott!". I thinks this fits you like a glove. You are all a bunch of hypocrites. If Joseph Muscat gave you a clue, and he did this publicly, and privately when he talked with Busuttil, doesn't mean that he was corrupt. Ok, you got the clue, but the important question is who was the PN whistleblower who passed the information to the PL? That's what PBO has to look into!
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Look what a Secretary General of a party in Government is at the helm. Lol. Just take a minute of your precious time and consider why PBO called an urgent press conference for? The answer is: PN has so many plonkers amongst them that now it is impossible to count how many. So many that it so worrying that conclusion to all this charade is that we have people in power who are categorized imbeciles. Wish to know how on earth they got qualified with doctorates, maybe we have many David Agius's around? Yes?
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Hija haga ovvja li gonzipn qed jippruvaw jaqallaw il-hama fi hdan il-PL. Qed jittamaw li Dr Sant ser jghamel xi wahda u jezzez lil Joseph. Barra l-fatt li qed jimbhu fil-vojt qed ikunu redikoli specjalment PBO u Simon Busutill, ghaliex Beppe u Francis qalu li kellhom jghidu, kif qallulhom jghamlu, waqt li PBO u SB qed jibqu jinghu bhal qtates f'Jannar. gonzipn ghandhom ikunu jafu li il-PL huwa sod u maghqud u jekk hasbu li Dr Sant huwa ta' l-istess pezza ta' JPO u Franco qed jizbaljaw bl'ikrah.
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ohhh they let you talk at last. You are not good to spin Paul. You took four years to get this from your spin box.
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@peppix, prosit!! Kemm hawn affarijiet izjed serji li irriddu inkunu nafu pawl, per ezempju min qatel lil Karen u lil Raymond, pawl, u jien it-tnejn insemmijhom pawl, ghax it-tnejn mietu innocentament pawl, mhux veru siehbi pawlu? U AFFARIJIET SERJI IZJED pawl. Dak ghidilna pawl, mela ic-cucati pawl.
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haqq al qahba (skuzi l'esspressjoni) sewwa jaghdu, il qahba minn li ikolla itik,ara ukoll minn irrid jajjar big mouth dak il profeta li kif taghlem jibat e-mails ukoll amel fowl. ehh pawlu pawlu hadd tikom raskhom ax mhandkhomx xhi tajdu fuq joseph muscat..imbarratz ta 4 snin ealu qedin taqilu, u jien smajta il video clip joseph ma semmix la il jpo u laqas il mistra, u busuttil dak il gbejna liehor qal li assumi li joseph kien qed jirreferi al jpo. jigifieri provi conkreti mhandkhomx haha, ax kull ma huma speculazzjonijiet ax joseph ma semma lebda isem jew kuntratti. allura int pbo int hritched ta bassa tinten bhas soltu, u ghallek iqabdu lilek biex tifsa, ax dejjem taqa fil h##a
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Kemm hu BRAVU dan PBO huwx! Hasra li spicca ma GonziPN u mhux ma' l-United Nations. Jekk xejn wara li jaqtaghulu rasu shabu stess (wara l-elezzjoni li jmiss) ghandu karriera promettenti bhala kummidjant. Kompli dahhakna Pawl!
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haqq al qahba (skuzi l'esspressjoni) sewwa jaghdu, il qahba minn li ikolla itik,ara ukoll minn irrid jajjar big mouth dak il profeta li kif taghlem jibat e-mails ukoll amel fowl. ehh pawlu pawlu hadd tikom raskhom ax mhandkhomx xhi tajdu fuq joseph muscat..imbarratz ta 4 snin ealu qedin taqilu, u jien smajta il video clip joseph ma semmix la il jpo u laqas il mistra, u busuttil dak il gbejna liehor qal li assumi li joseph kien qed jirreferi al jpo. jigifieri provi conkreti mhandkhomx haha, ax kull ma huma speculazzjonijiet ax joseph ma semma lebda isem jew kuntratti. allura int pbo int hritched ta bassa tinten bhas soltu, u ghallek iqabdu lilek biex tifsa, ax dejjem taqa fil h##a
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Issa li beda is-sajf jibda iwerzaq il-wurzieq. Xi ambjentalisti qeghdin joservaw nuqqas kbir tal- wurzieq li hadd ma jaghtu kazu ghalkemm jidhol f'widnejk. L-istess Borg Olivier tissaporti sakemm jigba; imbaghad ma jistamax ghal sena shiha: thanks God!
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I really pity you. So who said that RCC case is a frame up prior to the hearing do you cconcider him? "small mouth?" Addmitting he said not to take notice of what he says. How about changing the PN's name into "We are allowed to get away with a murder!" Pawl bear in mind that no matter how hard you will try "Il poplu mhux cuc kief gie majjar" Il PL ghandu team biex jilghab kontra Spanja w Pn ghandu team kief kienu Franza fil World cup! Titqatlu bejitkhom!
Zack Depasquale •
Doesn't this guy ever give up? Isn't GonziPN ashamed of this jumped up cretin trying to impress with his stupidity? You know what's important about the Mistra case, if there was any corruption in the manner how a permit was issued for a disco? and if there was any corruption, why did the GonziPN lot covered this case for years. Anyway we need a laugh now and again and with PBO so much in the limelight, looks like the laughs are going to keep on coming.
Igor P. Shuvalov •
Expect more of this type of press releases, press conferences and press utterances as the Nationalist Party tries to deviate the readers and the general public from focusing on the Government crisis and the more important problems which the Government is supposed to be tackling.
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The PN have become really pathetic. Who the hell cares who told whom about the blatant lies of JPO? The facts are that JPO was dishonest about the Mistra application and the PN instead of expelling him from the party tried to put Alfred Sant in a bad light. To top it off they even conjured up ways to make JPO look innocent with all those crocodile tears and play acting, which probably won them the elections. I would never have dreamed that the PN would stoop so low in all my life.
No amount of childish behavior is going to save the PN from a landslide defeat this time around and the sooner we get rid of some of these dishonest politicians the better for all.
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I dont really understand the reasoning. If the PN knew about the Mistra ordeal from Joseph Muscat, how come they panicked when they got to know that Alfred Sant had the contract in his possession. So in my view although JM could have given a hint of the strategy, the PN didnt really know much...
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KEMM INT FQIR U BLA SUGU POLITIKAMENT, SUR PBO.
JAQAW TAWK GIMGHA TIFRAH U TGHID LI TRID QUDDIEM IL CAMERAS IL BRIMBA TA FUQEK ??????
TFAL TAL KINDER GARDEN GHANDHOM SENS AKTAR MINNEK, LOL.
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@ Pawlu B.O.
Oqghod attent pawl, ghax jekk turtah hafna lill JM jiftah il- kanuni ghax ghandu munizzjon kemm irid, ie provi ta korruzzjoni godda, hmieg, tahwid u tixhim u jekk jghamel dan l- anqas ser tkun taf x laqtek!! Hux ghalhekk qed tittrattjenu li issejhu elezzjoni ghax qed tibzghu li ser jitkomplew jinkixfu il- borom?
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PBO calling muscat names what a laugh:)) he forgot when he sent emails by mistake to labour party officials from his ofgice. What should we call him a bigmouse since he only knows how to cick :))
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Come on Paul you should concentrate on the Bleeding PN and not what happened 4 years ago. Maybe Joseph Muscat
did say something unintentional but waht about what the dissidents of PN are saying?
