Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia today devoted the better part of his speech to the courtroom battle over the Egrant report, which he is insisting that he should be given in full.
Speaking in Tarxien, he repeated his arguments why he should be given the same access to information as the prime minister, considering the prime minister, according to the AG, needed to have the full 1,500-page Egrant report to fulfil his duty.
The AG has refused to testify and this, according to the PN leader, shows extreme arrogance. The PN must once again fight for its rights. It is true that people are not being beaten up now (as they were in the 1980s) or churches attacked, but the battle for democracy is as keen as it always was.
Then Delia spoke about the migrant issue. He put the blame squarely on the government which in its frenzy to see the economy grow is getting people from outside with no real checks made as to their character and readiness to integrate with the Maltese.
This is leading to people sleeping in gardens and cow farms with increased fighting on the streets. Malta's identity is at risk.
He pointed out that as has recently been said (by Dom Mintoff's daughter) the Maltese economy is based on cheap labour and the much acclaimed growth is just the result of more people working and not the result of more productivity. With some 10,000 coming to Malta every year, where will these live? And where will the Maltese young people live?
The Nationalist Party broke off the summer torpor and lack of political meetings by holding a party event at Tarxien.
The approaching local council elections were probably the reason why three local councillors from three distinct localities were the first speakers of the day - Lawrence Bonnici from Tarxien, Efrem Buttigieg from Hamrun and Janice Chetcuti from Marsaxlokk.
The first two focused on the recent cases of fighting by migrants in their localities and described a situation that is making many people stay indoors.
The Tarxien councillor said that following the discovery of more than a hundred migrants living in a cow farm in Qormi, a similar case was found in Tarxien and the village square ended up filled with migrants with suitcases with nowhere to go. Many of them later slept in public gardens.
The third speaker, Janice Chetcuti, spoke instead of being with Adrian Delia's legal team in the courtroom battle over the Egrant report and the Attorney General.