The Nationalist Party has protested to the news manager at the Public Broadcasting Services, Sylvana Cristina, about a PBS decision to allow a Labour Party spot on the Bondi+ programme which was aired on TVM last night.

This remedy, the PN said, was being given after Labour deputy leader Charles Mangion could not, on Bondi+, explain the financial implications of promises being made by Alfred Sant. Through the remedy given, the MLP would be unchallenged in what it said. That was the MLP’s strategy, the PN added.

The Labour Party was not consistent in the figures it gave. While the party’s secretary general had on Xarabank said that the Labour Party’s surcharge promise would cost between Lm15 and Lm19 million, party leader Alfred Sant on Sunday said the surcharge, public holidays, bank loans and overtime proposals would cost Lm15 million.

The MLP preferred to speak by itself so that no one would ask about its contradictions.

Dr Sant in government had taken the wrong decisions and created a deficit of Lm150 million in one year, then introduced 33 taxation measures to tone down the deficit. Today, when the price of oil was close to $100 a barrel water and power bills were still lower than Dr Sant had made them when he was Prime Minister and the price of oil was $12 a barrel.

The PN added it was protesting at the decision to give the MLP a propaganda spot on Bondi+ and was asking for a remedy. The PBS decision, it argued, created a bias against it.