Premier Muscat, who had convened bombastically a press conference to announce a 2c decrease in the price of fuel, has not deemed fit to break his silence after the publication of a story about Mark Gaffarena negotiating on behalf of the Government to buy from several owners a Palazzo in the heart of Valletta in order to resell it to Government and make a killing in profit, the Nationalist Party said in a statement today.

This major development in the close links between Labour and Gaffarena has not been denied by any of the protagonists. Intriguingly however, during a press conference held last week by the PN, the reporter from the Labour Party’s media made it very clear that she was privy to information, never rendered public, relating to an extended investigation on this latest scandal within the Gaffarena-Castille-Falzon scandal.

To date, the Government that does not miss a PR opportunity, has been lost for words. Muscat has remained silent. A silence that speaks volumes.

Government has to date neither denied what was revealed nor informed the public, as it was duty bound to do, of what steps it intending taking, if any, following this latest scandal.

It is unheard of, in any liberal democracy, for the Government to turn a blind eye to a damning story exposing Gaffarena being given access to privileged information about the purchase by Government of an historic building in the heart of our capital city which houses the Police Station to boot. It is totally unacceptable to have an evidently incestuous relationship between the Labour Party media and the Labour Government in order to create spin and red herrings.

The Gaffarena-Castille-Falzon scandal has firmly and truly trodden any vestige of Government’s credentials on transparency and good governance. This scandal has shown to what extent is this Government rotten to the core.