[WATCH] Prime Minister’s credibility ‘in freefall’, PN MEP says

PN MEP Therese Comodini Cachia, shadow minister for the education, hit out at the Prime Minister’s credibility after the latter announced on Sunday that an agreement with the Sadeen group over the ‘American University of Malta’ had been reached.

According to Comodini Cachia, Muscat “is insisting on lying” because the development didn’t deserve its title of university.

“The authority that gives these titles has stopped the institution from using the title and confirmed it only has a license to call itself an institute of higher education,” she said.

Comodini Cachia also hit out at the Prime Minister for referring to himself as “an underdog” in an interview on Dissett.

“If he is capable of lying on such small things then we can imagine on how much else he can lie about,” she said making a reference to the recent Panamagate scandal involving energy minister Konrad Mizzi and the PM's chief of staff Keith Schembri.

Referring to the National Commission For Higher Education (NCFHE), she urged the authority to admonish the government.

“I hope that the authority will be consistent and stop the institution from referring to itself as a University as well as stop Muscat from using this title.”

Comodini Cachia said that Muscat was ‘jumping the gun’ by advertising the institution as a University before it was certified as such.

She further stressed that these lies were typical of the lies being weaved throughout Muscat’s administration.

Comodini Cachia questioned the very legitimacy of the project and stressed that the NCFHE’s denial of the status of University was proof of Muscat’s intention to deceive the public.

She further referred to the controversy surrounding Mizzi and tSchemrbi, and said that he had lied to the people about the “steps” he had taken against the two.

“The step he should have taken was to condemn those on his side for opening a company in a tax haven,” she said adding that the he should have dismissed both men.

PN candidate Evelyn Vella Brincat stressed that the public was disgusted at the corruption crisis the country was going through.

“The Maltese public would like to live in a world where corruption and scandal are not the order of the day,” she said adding that the people were owed a world with no corruption.