Nationalist Party MP Ryan Callus has resigned the post of member on the board of governors of the Lands Authority. The decision was taken in agreement with the Opposition Leader, Adrian Delia, a PN statement said.
Callus resigned because of unprecedented interference by the government in the board’s functions and that of the authority, and after the government shifted the taking of decisions from being under the board’s responsibility and gave them to Land Authority chairman James Piscopo.
It is the second resignation announced by the PN in the last few days. On Sunday, PN MP Marthese Portelli resigned from the Planning Authority board, saying the Opposition is not willing to participate in an entity that does not show respect to the people.
The PN said that Piscopo is very close to the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri.
In these circumstances, the PN felt it could not be an accomplice in manoeuvres intended solely for the benefit of the few to the detriment of the rest of the population.
Malta belongs to the people, not to Muscat and Schembri, the PN said.