Rosianne Cutajar has been accepted back into Labour’s parliamentary group, but without the apology that Prime Minister Robert Abela expected from her.

In a parliamentary group meeting held on Friday afternoon, Labour MPs decided for her re-integration, a Labour Party statement said in a three-line statement, giving no further details other than for the decision taken.

In a statement, the Nationalist Party said that this once again exposed Abela’s weakness. He had to give in to having her back into the parliamentary group even though she never apologised for her wrongdoing, the PN said.

Last March, Abela had said that Cutajar must issue an apology before being re-considered for acceptance into the parliamentary group.

“If one doesn’t apologise in cases like these, it shows they do not really want to return; so yes, I think an apology is in order,” Abela had said at the time.

Cutajar had resigned under pressure from the Labour Party following the publication of Whatsapp chats between her and Yorgen Fenech. The chats occurred between June and September 2019, and showed the close relationship that the MP had with Fenech at a time when he was under scrutiny for being the owner of 17 Black. Fenech was, later in November that year, arrested over the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

She had remained in Parliament as an independent MP.

In one exchange that was uncovered, Cutajar told Fenech she would seek a consultancy with the Institute for Tourism Studies to emulate everyone else, presumably from the PL, who was acting like a pig at the trough.