PN MP Chris Said has confirmed with The Malta Independent that a Facebook message he posted earlier in the day is to be interpreted as an offer to mediate between the two factions supporting PN Leader Adrian Delia and PN MP Simon bussuttil, for them to sit down and discuss the way forward.
Said in a tweet had called on the party to keep working together and that in discussing what the best approach to fighting the “corruption and abuse of power in our country” was, the party should not “fall into the trap” of “sweeping away” its own members.
In what appears to be an expression of support to Simon Busuttil, Said said that doing so would simply be satisfying outsiders who had the clear intention of brining a split within the PN, the former party leadership contender said.
Leader Adrian Delia has asked Busuttil to suspend himself from the parliamentary group in the wake of the publication of the conclusions of the Egrant inquiry, which found that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife are not the owners of a company opened in Panama. Busuttil, as Opposition Leader, has based the PN election campaign on the Daphne Caruana Galizia revelation, which now turned out to be untrue.
Through a post on his Facebook page today, Said noted that the inquiry about the Egrant case had not managed to determine to whom the company belongs to. However, Said explained, everybody knows who owns Hearnville and Tillgate and reminded of the €1 million that, according to the Panama Papers, had to pass through these secret companies which belonged to Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri.
“Now is the moment where as a party, we need to work together to find the best way to fight rampant corruption, and explain to people that everybody will feel the consequences of corruption, be it today or tomorrow”, Said wrote.
He also made clear that he was ready to help the party band together and not let others tell them what they should do, whilst also putting himself at the full disposition of the PN so that they could internally find a solution that brings them together and makes them a “strong and effective” opposition.
Other MPs have openly supported Busuttil, while others have expressed their confidence in Delia, whose recommendation also has the backing of the party administrative council.
