PN MP Therese Comodini Cachia will not be contesting the next general election, hence bringing to a close a relatively short stint in politics.

 “Partisan polarised parliamentary politics is not the best outfit for me to wear to be able to continue striving for a better place with a fairer community,” Comodini Cachia told Times of Malta on Friday.

Comodini Cachia, a lawyer by profession, was elected as MEP in 2014 before then moving from Brussels to Malta to take up a parliamentary seat which she won in the 2017 general election.

She was the person who fronted a campaign by PN MPs to oust Adrian Delia from the party leadership in 2020 after months of tension and divide.

Delia eventually lost a confidence vote, and Bernard Grech was elected in his stead.

In her comments, Comodini Cachia dismissed suggestions that there were rifts with the party, simply saying that she wanted to make her decision public before the general election.

She pledged to continue helping the party and her colleagues behind the scenes, and she also said that she will continue as the lawyer for the Daphne Caruana Galizia without the constraints of partisan parliamentary politics.

In a statement, the PN thanked Comodini Cachia for her service to the party.

The party said that she had always understood that politics was a mission through which one must provide service to the nation and the Maltese people as a whole.

The party praised her work both as an MP and as an MEP.

"Therese Comodini Cachia always showed courage and integrity in her political work and as a lawyer engaged in working in favour of the conservation of fundamental human rights, justice, rule of law, and the national fight against corruption", the party said.

They said that Comodini Cachia will keep on working within the party structures, and that they looked forward to continuing working and collaborating.