Simon Busuttil should have resigned immediately from Parliament after the publication of Magistrate Aaron Bugeja’s conclusions on the unfounded Egrant allegations, but if Busuttil refuses to do so it will be in the interests of the Labour Party, Labour Party MEP Alfred Sant said today. 

Simon Busuttil has become a millstone hung around the PN’s neck, he added.

Sant, taking part in the radio programme ‘Sibt il-Punt’ hosted by Manuel Micallef on ONE Radio, described the definitive and clear inquiry conclusions as a ‘plus point’ for Malta and for the judiciary which showed that the rule of law in Malta is transparent and effective.

Sant reiterated that David Casa should also resign from the European Parliament. Casa took the personal initiative to use European Parliament funds to visit Maria Efimova in Greece with the sole intention of not extraditing the Russian whistleblower to Malta.

The Egrant saga is in line with the political strategy that the right in Europe has been following for at least the last thirty years, by which it has concentrated on vilifying the frontrunners of the left and the centre, most times avoiding in this way to propose new policies.

Alfred Sant described Portughese MEP  Ana Gomes  as “excitable” and her antics as a "joke", while her Portughese colleagues describe her as a ‘fire cracker’.

Dr Sant noted that ‘The Times’ does not have one common editorial policy on the Egrant conclusion. Immediately after the Egrant conclusion ‘The Times’ had asked for Simon Busuttil’s resignation, whilst later they had different views on the calls for Simon Busuttil’s and David Casa’s resignations from both Parliaments.