Divorce issue 'on top' of PN's agenda
The Nationalist party says it will be focusing more on the issue of divorce in the coming weeks and months, PN organ il-mument reported.
This is going to occur as a result of the outcome of the meeting held by the Nationalist party parliamentary group last Wednesday after Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando presented a bill to introduce divorce in Malta, based on Ireland’s law.
Il-mument said that Pullicino Orlando’s initiative has raised several reactions by both the local media and Maltese and Gozitans.
According to the newspaper, the 3-hour long 'divorce meeting', was described as an intensive one with a positive outcome. At the end of the meeting, Prime Minister and party leader Lawrence Gonzi said that such an important decision should be taken by the electorate and not just by the 69 MPs.
However, the article goes on to say that the PM has not committed himself as to whether the decision should be taken during the general election or in a referendum. At the same time Gonzi expressed his opinion that Pullicino Orlando’s way of presenting the bill should not have been in that manner.
Il-mument also said that on several occasions, Opposition Leader Joseph Muscat had expressed his opinion against a divorce referendum saying that such a decision would mean a lack of good governance.


