Enemalta Corporation yesterday explained the situation with regard to electrically lit billboards being used in the Nationalist Party’s electoral campaign. It was replying to questions made by Labour deputy leader Michael Falzon.

The corporation said the PN applied for temporary provision of electricity to billboards which would be connected to the street lighting system.

This was the procedure effected whenever anybody applied to light up streets at night, for example during feast days or at Christmas time. There is a fee of e69.90 (Lm30), and a deposit has to be made for two months’ consumption. This is what has been done in this case, the corporation said.

Enemalta added that as was usual for temporary installations, there was no meter for the billboards. The amount of consumption is calculated by counting the number of neon tubes on a billboard. Enemalta will know what time the tubes are used, because they are switched on at the same time street lights come on. Payment wis made by the consumer using the lights, in this case the Nationalist Party.