Malta’s two major political parties are doing a poor job of steering Constitutional reform and it is clear that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has little interest in fixing the country’s “broken” political system, the Democratic Party said today.

“The political duopoly of the Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform is turning out to be ineffective and seems to be tied by the agenda of the Executive, as is apparent by the half-baked amendments presented in Parliament this week,” PD MP and interim leader Godfrey Farrugia said.

“We need a radical reformation of our Constitution, and this must be addressed immediately through effective consultation with all stakeholders,” he said. “This is not being observed”.

The PD has repeatedly said that it is opposed to the “secretive” manner in which the Labour and Nationalist parties are discussing constitutional reform and called for broader representation from across society.