PN leader Bernard Grech condemned Prime Minister Robert Abela and disgraced former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for attacking the institutions, for doing everything so that "we don't get our hospitals back", and for now doing everything so that those responsible for the Vitals deal scandal remain hidden.

He said that after first doing everything so that Karin Grech Rehabilitation Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and the Gozo General Hospital remain in the hands of the concessionnaire, both Abela and Muscat "now are doing everything for justice not to be done with the Maltese and Gozitan people" and for trying to stop the courts from "uncovering and confirming who are responsible for the theft and fraud that was carried out."

Grech reiterated the call to let the institutions work throughout his address to the nation, reminding that this slogan was originally used by those currently in power.

"Now that the institutions are working, they are attacking them," Grech said.

The Nationalist Party leader said he has faith in the courts, before criticizing Abela for attacking and threatening the institutions "to distract them from doing their jobs." Grech labelled this behaviour from the Prime Minister - as someone with the obligation to protect the country's institutions and see that the courts are safeguarded - as "unacceptable."

"The Prime Minister is still doing everything so that in the case we opened, he stops us from getting back the €400 million that was stolen," Grech added. He said that the Prime Minister does not believe the people have the right to know who committed "the greatest fraud in the political history of our country."

Grech said, while directly addressing Abela and Muscat, that it is for these reasons that the Nationalist Party is holding them responsible for "the theft that was carried out from the health of the Maltese people, for every abuse to stop justice from being carried out, and for the terrorist attack that you are carrying out on our Courts."

Grech also remarked that the Maltese people are waiting for the Attorney General and the Police Commissioner to react to the conclusion of the Vitals inquiry and do what they must, without looking at faces.

"The Maltese people have the right for justice to be served against those who committed the corruption and abuse of power," Grech said.

Grech concluded his address by saying that "The people have the right to retrieve the €400 million that was stolen from us." Furthermore, he said that justice must be served without being dragged on, transparently, and irrespective of faces.

"Justice must be served if you are the Prime Minister, an ex-Prime Minister, or if you are a private citizen. Justice does not look at faces," Grech said, before reiterating the call to let the institutions function.