If elected PN leader, Bernard Grech said that he would gather a team of experts in order to analyse what steps can be taken in court to rescind the Electrogas contract for Malta’s power station.

“If I am given the faith to leader the Nationalist Party I, together with a team of experts, will look into what steps can be taken in our courts so that this contract can be rescinded and so the people can be untied of the extra payments which are a direct result of corruption”, the PN leadership contender said on Wednesday.

Grech said that after Gasan Enterprises had declared that it wanted out of the Electrogas consortium, it is clear that from a project which had to be the jewel in the eye of Joseph Muscat’s Labour Government, it has now ended up being a project of “shame and a monument to corruption.”

In a video message, Grech said that after the suspension of Nexia BT’s licence to sell passports – a scheme which Grech described as one which embarrassed the country, despite former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat travelling to the four corners of the globe to promote it – it is time to turn a new economic page.

The new page must be characterised by legitimate economic growth which is based on work, the creation of new economic sectors, and on work which we can be proud of, not embarrassed about.

He said that the government is trying to take credit for the recent developments, but noted that one cannot forget that this is the same government which up until recently were proudly boasting about their friendship with the “criminal clique” that had taken over Castille.

“Now everyone is racing to deny that which, up until yesterday, they were proud of”, Grech said.

Grech said that this is why the country needs a strong and credible opposition, noting that that too much damage has been done to the country and that there is the need for serious, clean and responsible leadership.