Government backbencher Rosianne Cutajar has raised a breach of privilege complaint against PN MP Jason Azzopardi over a Facebook post which he shared claiming that Cutajar had used vulgar language against him during a parliamentary debate.

Cutajar filed the complaint on Monday morning, stating that she had never used such language against Azzopardi or towards any other MPs.

“I’m not that low. I don’t use it in my daily life, let alone in the highest institution of our country,” she said.

Azzopardi uploaded a photo of Cutajar’s alleged choice of obscenities on Saturday, saying that the Labour MP and former Parliamentary Secretary had lobbed the insults at him during a parliamentary debate on 12 November 2018 which was discussing Yorgen Fenech’s company 17 Black.

During the sitting, Cutajar put up a stout defence of Fenech.

Cutajar is known to have had a close relationship with Fenech, and in fact lost her parliamentary secretary position after she was alleged to have received some €50,000 while acting as a broker to Fenech in securing a property deal.

She denied this, but admitted to have received €9,000 in cash from Fenech as a birthday gift.  Nonetheless, the Standards Commissioner  found her in prima facie breach of ethics as an MP.

Cutajar’s alleged choice words for Azzopardi emerged in screenshots purported to be of Yorgen Fenech’s whatsapp chats  which were shared by former book council chief Mark Camilleri – who Cutajar opened a libel case against in recent days.

The chat – between Fenech and Dizz Group’s Diane Izzo – shows Fenech saying how Cutajar had gone off the rails defending him, and that she had apparently shouted the insults off-mic at Azzopardi when the latter said that it will be the court who sees whether Fenech is innocent or not.