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Labour denies Lm250,000 concession under Sant’s government
Labour Party rebuffs accusations made yesterday by the Opposition.
15 November 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
Australia Hall in Pembroke.
The Labour Party denied accusations that in 1997, former Prime Minister Alfred Sant waived Lm250,000 which were due to the government by the party.
The Labour Party rebuffed accusations made by PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami, saying he should have the right facts in hand.
“The Nationalist Party is still pursuing politics of the past. The last electoral result gave a strong signal that politics based on lies and spins are no longer wanted. Beppe Fenech Adami did not mention that his father (Former Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami) had already constituted a case trying to reclaim Australia Hall from the Labour Party but the case was dropped in March 2006,” Labour said in a statement.
The accusations were made yesterday in a press conference addressed by Fenech Adami, outside Australia Hall in Pembroke.
Fenech Adami accused the government of favouring the Labour Party by dropping the case initiated by the Commissioner of Land.
The Australia Hall case was filed by the Lands Department in 2010 after the property was left in a state of abandon, in breach of the contract signed between the Labour government in 1979 and the Labour Party.
The property had been granted to the PL after the party relinquished land it owned in Marsa that was used by the government for the siting of the Malta Shipbuilding.
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Unless BFA comes up with evidence to substantiate his accusations, I shall continue considering him the underhanded politician he resembles.
John Mifsud •
PN administrations had 25 years during which they could quite easily and legally have taken this property back. They did nothing, only to insitute a lame lawsuit on the eve of the last general election. The PN's whinging and whining is truly unconvincing.
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Beppe's accusation against Dr. Alfred Sant, remimnded me of the fact when his father, Dr. Eddie FEnech Adami, had accused Dr. Sant of having stopped his son ( Beppe ) from entering for the law course at the university. And had made this vile accusation on the eve of the general election ! Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami had been later found guilty by the couurt of having LIED about Dr, Sant !
Seems to run in the family.
