After the Xarabank fireworks it was a relatively quiet day in the election campaign, almost one of transition as the major political tried to catch their breath as they embark on the last week of meetings and events before the people cast their vote.

The talk of the town was on who had won the televised debate, some arguing that the subjects were more important than the body language which, it must be said, revealed a Prime Minister almost in distress, and others pushing more for the content, with Simon Busuttil publishing various reports that he had presented as evidence to Magistrate Aaron Bugeja.

The story published just before the face-off by The Malta Independent - which revealed that investigations by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit exposed the transfer of money from a company connected to Armada Floating Gas Services Malta, owners of the LNG tanker berthed in Marsaxlokk, to a Dubai-based company created for the purpose of transferring kickbacks to then Minister for Energy Konrad Mizzi and Prime Minister Chief of Staff Keith Schembri – was also a popular matter of discussion, with Labourites trying hard to find excuses and wanting more “proof”, while Nationalists used it as a weapon to continue attacking the government.

OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and the minister who was relegated to having no portfolio, Konrad Mizzi, both issued terse statements which left one and all none the wiser, while Busuttil challenged the FIAU to publish the entire report.

Busuttil pledged to buy energy from the cheapest supplier, irrespective of the agreement reached with Electrogas by Labour, further adding fuel to the already blazing fire. Muscat timidly focused on a company Mario de Marco is involved with in Cyprus, but changed his tune overnight – on Xarabank he said de Marco owned it and yesterday he said de Marco was involved in it. There’s a big difference, with the PN later saying that de Marco is just a director of this company in his professional capacity. And Cyprus, an EU country, is not the secretive Panama, one may add.

In the evening, Busuttil called for an investigation on whether Vitals Group, who took over the running of three hospitals during the past legislature, have an account at Pilatus Bank, which has become a household name in the past month or so. For his part, Muscat lashed out at what he said were Busuttil’s double standards.

It was announced that former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will be speaking at Labour’s mass meeting today. What do Renzi and Muscat have in common? They both failed to take their government to the end of their term. Renzi’s father has also been at the centre of an investigation in Italy. Sounds familiar.