Minister confirms Lou Bondì 'represented national broadcaster' at EC presser
Education and culture minister Dolores Cristina confirms that TV presenter Lou Bondì was representing PBS, during the European Commission press conference on John Dalli resignation.
Education and culture minister Dolores Cristina has confirmed that TV presenter Lou Bondì was representing national broadcaster, PBS, during the press conference organised by the European Commission on the John Dalli resignation on 17 October.
The press conference was widely followed in Malta and the rest of Europe and gave journalists the first opportunity to quiz the Commission spokesperson and the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF on Dalli's resignation.
Dalli, was forced to resign as EU health and consumer policy commissioner following an investigation by the EU anti-fraud office OLAF into a complaint by a Swedish tobacco company over an alleged attempt of corruption by the former PN Sliema deputy mayor Silvio Zammit.
Bondì, who presents Bondiplus on TVM, a programme produced by media house Where's Everybody? of which Bondì is a director. However, in his interventions during the press conference in Brussels, Bondì introduced himself as a national broadcaster journalist.
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