APAN, the Nationalist Party’s association for the elderly, accused Alfred Sant of making fun of the elderly in a bid to ridicule the Prime Minister. The Labour leader, it said, had chosen an elderly person using a walking stick to ridicule the Prime Minister. Dr Sant, it added, was insensitive to the elderly in the country.

An apology would be in order, but APAN said it would not ask for one, knowing that Dr Sant would not make it.

He still had not apologised for the way the Labour Party had tried to alarm patients when the first surgical interventions were made at the new hospital. Neither had he apologised to the medical staff after they were attacked by the Labour Party, it added.