Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has refused to rule out a return to politics, in an interview he gave to Times of Malta.

Muscat resigned in January 2020 amid scandal and the emergence of links between senior public figures to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

“If they keep annoying me, I do not exclude it,” Muscat said when asked if he considered returning to politics.

“I’m giving you something for people to think about. Because people say I’m going to contest, so I figured I’d say I don’t exclude it.”

Muscat, however, excluded contesting the next general election or making another future bid for party leader. He also said that occupying a public role would be “overbearing” for the government.

The former PM also laid the blame on the Nationalist Party over certain political developments, accusing the Opposition of failing to act in the national interest when the country needed unity.

He also denied having backed Robert Abela in the 2020 PL leadership race, but admitted that his wife Michelle had did express the fact that she favoured him over Chris Fearne.