What PN Leader Simon Busuttil said to the whistleblower in the Gozo work-for-votes case is worrying, PL Deputy Leader Toni Abela and Parliamentary Secretary Ian Borg said this afternoon.
Speaking at a press conference at the PL HQ, they quoted the whistleblower as saying in court that, when he approached Simon Busuttil about the unpaid works, the PN Leader asked him why he had continued with the works so close to the election when he knew the PN would lose.
The PL officials said this was very worrying and asked if it meant that, if the PN had won the 2013 election, the works in private properties would have continued.
They noted that Simon Busuttil issued a press release yesterday but had failed to react to this allegation made by the whistleblower.
PL Deputy Leader Toni Abela alleged that whenever a new fact on the case is revealed, the Opposition tries to make slight changes, sometimes opposing arguments that would previously have made.
"The Opposition leader, through the statement given by the whistleblower under oath, was sending a message - that if they (the PN) had remained in government, things would have kept on going as they were".
"We consider Dr Busuttil's silence on this issue as a confirmation".
He stressed that the whistleblower has remained consistant in his version of events.
Parliamentary Secretary for EU Funds Ian Borg stated that he is concerned with the lack of a PN reaction.
"If the PN remained in power would this Gozo racket have continued?" he asked.
"Who do you believe? Simon Busuttil who said he never met the whistleblower when it turned out they had met twice, or a whistleblower under oath?"
Pressed by journalists if they were going to call for Simon Busuttil's resignation, the PL representatives did not confirm nor deny.