The Nationalist Party has called on the public to register their utility bills with them as the party seeks to address “the unjust way” in which water and electricity bills are being formulated.

In a press conference, PN MPs David Agius and Ryan Callus called on the public to go to the party’s Pieta headquarters on Saturday 29 May between 9am and 12:30pm to register their interest in the case.

This comes after Times of Malta revealed that a draft report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that consumers could have paid “extra charges” totalling €6.5 million on their electricity and water bills every year.

Yesterday, PN leader Bernard Grech pledged that a Nationalist government would return the €50 million, which is the number calculated to have been over-charged since the ARMS system was being used, to the consumers.

Now, the PN has said that its headquarters “will be open for victims to register” on Saturday. Those who attend must bring their identity card and electricity bill account number with them, they said.

Agius stressed that the Government in recent years had stolen €50 million from the Maltese and Gozitan people and promised, a new Government led by the Nationalist Party will reimburse the millions of euros which “were stolen from the people” through their electricity and water bills since 2013.

On the other hand, Ryan Callus said that the Labour Party had “at no time denied that this theft had not been committed”. He also said that the PL “didn’t even commit to addressing this anomaly, let alone how much it will commit to returning the money stolen from Maltese families.”

Callus said that this was a Labour government which promised so much in the energy sector prior to the election, only to then make a mess of it; leaving the average citizen with next nothing while they raked in millions of euros.