Busuttil ‘attacking respected institutions’

The Nationalist Party is reverting to attacks on the country's "respected institutions," the Labour Party said following PN leader Simon Busuttil's criticism of the police commissioner and the National Audit Office.

"Most noticeable of all was Simon Busuttil's attack on the commissioner of police, an attack against the authority which maintains order in our country. Busuttil also defended inspector Elton Taliana which was singled out by the police board inquiry for his shortcomings in carrying out his duty."

Earlier today, Busuttil said that recent events, including the commissioner's handling of the investigations into the wrongful arrest of an innocent person, had shown that Zammit was turning the police force into a Labour club.

Labour also hit out at Busuttil's inconsistencies, underlining the PN leader's attacks on the police board and the Public Accounts Committee after originally stating his trust in both institutions.

"Simon Busuttil's statement on shortcomings in the National Audit Office's report which should be exposed is contradictory in the wake of the attacks the Auditor General and his office's report suffered by the PN and its exponents," the Labour Party said.

In his interview earlier today, Busuttil highlighted shortcomings in the NAO's report on Enemalta's fuel procurement. He said these include the lack of questioning of persons involved in the oil procurement, as the Opposition leader explained that the PN was obliged to point out these shortcomings while insisting that these do not constitute an attack on the NAO.

However, Busuttil accused the NAO of having double standards when it awarded direct orders while scrutinising the government's contracts. He added that the NAO had appointed experts who were employed at Enemalta when the state utility's activities are under investigation, in reference to Robert Ghirlando who was Enemalta chairman between 1998 and 2003.

Labour pointed out that the leader of the Opposition "returned" to the politics of Nationalist and Labourite faces while stressing that elections should not be about "fighting" but vision.

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What do you expect of the PN. Their very origins, if one looks at our past history, was based on the fascist methods of attacking institutions and creating false information to blacken such institutions. The Terinu Case to label Strickland a Free Mason was one such. Enrico Mizzi, son of the founder of the PN was court martialled during the first world war for SEDITION. At every step in our Political History the PN was most famous for Sedition and now that the Maltese People have given them the biggest trashing in our Political History they are once again using sedition to achieve their aims. The attack of Tonio Fenech on Dr Martin Fenech in the oil scandal case during the Election Campaign is still resonant in everyone's ears and the libel case for criminal libel is still pending. So is the attack by the same Tonio Fenech on Dr Manuel Mallia and Dr Farrugia Sacco. It is clear that the PN has not changed and will never change because Sedition is the best thing they know how to do. We all now know that Finanzi fis-sod which they bragged about was not even valid for their own PN administration, so sedition is the only one last resort that they have.

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BRAND ~ teamPN! Il-PN ma jinbiddilx , specjalment meta jkun fl'Opposizzjoni u jmur jimmina u jinstiga minn taht, mill genb u anki BARRA IL-PAJJIZ! Mhux ta' min jafda it-tmexxija ta' dan il-partit!

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The PN is mud slinging respected institutions in our country. Purely a blinkered partisan approach. Malta deserves a better Opposition in parliament. Instead of dealing with issues of poitical substance the PN is wasting its time on crap. The PN has become dead wood.

Busuttil ‘attacking respected institutions’ – Labour

Opposition reverts to partisan attacks on democratic institutions, Labour says.