The Nationalist Party has reiterated its call for the resignation of Energy Minister Miriam Dalli as Malta suffers a series of blackouts for the sixth day in a row.

A statement published by the PN mentioned how the government refused the PN’s call to have an urgent parliamentary discussion on the blackouts on Saturday.

PN Leader Bernard Grech said that if you discuss power cuts and call this a “national crisis” for Prime Minister Robert Abela, then you are being “partisan.” He was making reference to a letter that Deputy Minister Chris Fearne sent to Speaker of the House Anglu Farrugia, which said that the PN’s call for an urgent parliamentary sitting is a “partisan move.”

“Robert Abela doesn't care that you couldn't sleep at night, that you had to throw away your food, that you couldn’t go to work, because for Robert Abela, discussing this national crisis, where the people are suffering, is not a priority.”

Grech said that the PN will remain behind the people and not try and run away from reality. The PN will continue to insist that there should be an appropriate investment in the distribution of electricity and that the Maltese people be compensated for the damages they are suffering.

The blackouts that people are suffering are the result of the government’s economic model which is focused on increasing the population with cheap labour, without having the proper infrastructure in place, the PN said.

“It is surreal that after ten years of a Labor Government, Minister Miriam Dalli still blames the Nationalist Party for this conundrum when it was the government she is part of that chose to increase the population by more than one hundred and twenty thousand people without any planning.”

It noted how because of the government’s incompetence, lack of planning and corruption in the energy sector, the workers of Enemalta and the Maltese people are suffering.