Dr Chris Said has tabled a motion in Parliament asking the Prime Minister to appoint a board of inquiry consisting of three retired judges to investigate all the people mentioned by the late Daphne Caruana Galizia in connection with corruption scandals, etc. This means that Dr Said is officially asking that his own leader, Dr Adrian Delia - the present leader of the PN and the Opposition - be investigated.

I am sure that many people will be following the debate on this motion with great interest. What I would like to point out to Dr Said and your readers is the fact that Daphne Caruana Galizia was very selective when choosing whom to target. Very rarely had she investigated prominent PN politicians. I do not recall that she had ever called for an investigation about former PN minister Tonio Fenech when his private secretary, Mr Borg Hedley, had been found guilty of accepting bribes, or when he was involved in a company which was being investigated for lack of good governance involving many millions of euros. Neither do I recall Daphne investigating Beppe Fenech Adami about his involvement with a company which was being investigated about money-laundering of many millions of euros allegedly originating from drug trafficking. Or about Dr Jason Azzopardi who has been involved in stories such as the 'Tal-Fekruna' land, The Löwenbräu land deal and the latest story about the Spinola property deal, estimated by the AG to cost over €2 million, but by the court over €600,000, and from which finally the government only received €35!

There are a good number of other cases going back decades about which we never read a word from Mrs Caruana Galizia, such as the stories about the Foundation of Tomorrow's Schools and the 'Auxiliary Workers Scheme' when Dr Louis Galea was the minister responsible for them. This is why I believe that Dr Said's motion is discriminatory. If anything, Dr Said should have said that all cases which had been mentioned by all journalists should be investigated, and not just those mentioned by Daphne Caruana Galizia. After all, this government has abolished prescription for politicians, as well as introducing the Whistleblower Act.

This is why I believe that the real aim of Dr Said's motion is to further undermine Dr Delia's position as PN and Opposition leader, a post he was eager to get as long as he was uncontested for it.

Eddy Privitera