Opposition leader Bernard Grech is ready to invent things in order to remain in the seat of power, PL MP Randolph Debattista said in a press conference on Wednesday.

Referring to the PN’s criminal complaint for the police to investigate all those involved in the hospitals deal scandal, Debattista said that the party’s protest that followed was no bigger than “a coffee morning.”

“This is nothing other than a strategy of a cheap politician,” he said.

On Monday, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech and PN MP Adrian Delia presented a criminal complaint for the police to investigate all the details that emerged in court in connection with the case.

Last February, a court ruled that a deal to transfer three public hospitals to the private sector was “fraudulent” and deemed the concession agreement to be null and void.

In the judgment, the court emphasised its concern if the people running the government could have entered into such arrangements. Even the Auditor General had expressed the same suspicions.

“If Bernard Grech is ready to reduce politics to this level, he is going to find us [stopping him],” Debattista added.

Instead of presenting such a complaint, Debattista said that Grech should have asked the Police Commissioner to investigate himself on the basis that he had said on record that he wants to give a Presidential pardon to the alleged mastermind behind the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Debattista also spoke of how Bernard Grech “was a tax evader up until he decided to be a politician” and of how despite a number of scandals involving PN MPs, these are still part of the party’s parliamentary group.

On his part, PL MP Glen Bedingfield described Grech as a “hypocrite who has no plan for the country,” other than to be destructive.

He said that in going to the Police Commissioner “to try and convince people that he is better than the Prime Minister, when in reality he is not”, Grech is endorsing a type of politics of the lowest quality.

Bedingfield remined how this is not the first time that the PN “is using this strategy”, claiming that the party did the same thing in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when it resorted to court proceedings to “incriminate the Prime Minister together with Armed Forces of Malta soldiers” in a case concerning migrants which weren’t being allowed into Malta back in 2021.