MLP deputy leader Michael Falzon said yesterday that the Nationalist Party’s favourite weapon in order to win votes, was to twist facts and spread lies.
Dr Falzon said that the Nationalist media took some extracts from an interview he gave The Times, published on 7 October, and concocted a story which departed widely from what he actually said.
Only last week, the PN and the MLP were embroiled in controversy over another interview, this time with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, that was published in The Sunday Times.
This was not the first time that the Nationalist media had to resort to deceptive measures to achieve political gain, Dr Falzon said, as even the Labour Party General Secretary’s words were twisted to mean that once in government the MLP would discriminate against those who disagreed with it.
He said the record of political discrimination in the country was in the hands of the Nationalist Party, as court decisions had established.
Dr Falzon said that despite Budget 2008, the PN have not managed to win the trust of the people. The PN should base their campaign on new ideas rather than personal attacks, and he was considering taking legal action against the Nationalist media.
The Nationalist Party said in reply that Dr Falzon had said that Labour’s problem was that there were people who felt they could not trust it enough.
Dr Falzon said in the interview published in The Times that he had learnt this from meetings he had with people, the PN said. There was no doubt about Dr Falzon’s words in the interview and not even the legal action he was reportedly considering could erase his words.
The PN said the MLP lacked credibility to the point where even the MLP deputy leader expressed this. The twisting of facts and the spreading of lies remained the favourite weapons used by the Labour Party.
The PN said it was the MLP deputy leader himself who, in the presence of the MLP Leader, announced that he gave the Police Commissioner a list of Labour names to investigate, as these were running internal campaigns against him.