Embattled PN leader Adrian Delia has said that it is now decision time, and that people cannot be allowed to keep damaging the PN.

In a clear warning to those who are making attempts to get him removed from party leader, Delia said that it is no wonder that political surveys keep on registering poor results for the PN when the party is not united.

Speaking in a telephone interview on NET FM on Sunday, Delia admitted it is a difficult time for the party, but added that it is a time for unity. He questioned whether people are expecting the same PN of the past, and the same attitude from years ago when people’s opinions were shunned.

He said that he had been voted as party leader with a mandate for a new way, with the people at the centre of the party.

“There are those who don’t like it…who prefer the past way. There are those who prefer to run things themselves and seen people as third class, as some have called them”, he said before adding that he had spoken to people from all walks of life, including those whom the PN had hurt in the past.

He said that he is more determined than ever to renew the party, and noted that for the party to be renewed, there cannot be anyone whose only thought is to interfere with and damage the party so that it doesn’t move forward.

“I will not let classism push out those who are small – I want to show that this is a party for all and not just for those who are educated”, he said.

Asked why surveys had continued to show a lack of support for the PN despite the government being quagmired in a number of corruption scandals, Delia said that while corruption is a plague which can destroy a country, the PN cannot remain a one-issue party.

He said that first and foremost there must be unity. He referred to the recently published NAO report on the Vitals Global Healthcare hospitals concession, which found collusion between Vitals and the government, and said that instead of going out as one front against the government, the party members were wasting energy turning one each other.

“And then we wonder why the surveys are against us”, he added.

He said that the PN needs to start explaining and offering solutions on a raft of different topics such as the environment, infrastructure and a new, better economic model for the country.

“We aren’t moving forward because we aren’t together as one team explaining what the party is focused on and convincing people to get behind us”, he said.

“There are solutions – but now its decision time, we cannot keep wasting time, we cannot keep allowing people to damage the party”, Delia said.

Delia also spoke more in detail about the Vitals Global Healthcare deal, noting that the country is still paying a quarter of a million euros everyday for nothing.  He said that millions had been robbed from the Maltese and Gozitan workers suffering to provide a better life to their children in a process which was “clearly agreed from beforehand”.

Finally, asked what is keeping him going, Delia said that he is looking positively, and that with a party which is united, there is not only the light at the end of the tunnel, but also opportunities at the end of the same tunnel.

Delia said that he has nothing on his conscience and nothing to be ashamed of, and added that he is convinced that the truth will emerge.