PN secretary general Clyde Puli has filed a request for a prohibitory injunction in court, which has been provisionally upheld, to 'protect the democratic rights' of the people of St Paul's Bay and its surrounding localities by maintaining the PN's majority within the local council.

Puli said that the new mayor should be a PN member as the party had won the majority in the 2015 local council elections.

The mayor, Graziella Galea, recently resigned but will stay on as a PN councillor. She was due to face a motion of no confidence.

Two councillors, who have resigned from the party since Adrian Delia's election and are now independent candidates, along with the PL councillors filed the motion of no confidence.

Puli claimed that the councillors who presented the motion were attempting to place a PL Mayor and take control over the local council.

He said that law makes it clear that the mayor must form part of the party that won the majority in the local council election.

PL statement

The PL referred to the request for a prohibitory injunction to stop tonight’s local council meeting as a continuation of mistakes that led this council to end up in the state it is currently in.

The PL noted the PN’s panicked state, being unable to keep its team unified.