The courts have completed their job and now it is up to the government to do its duty, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said Thursday.

Reacting to the guilty verdict in the trial by jury related to the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Carmel Chircop, Grech said the government must now see that what happened is not repeated.

The government has the obligation to implement the recommendations made by the public inquiry into Caruana Galizia's death, Grech said. The PN had presented a parliamentary motion in this respect.

The inquiry had found a culture of impunity "introduced" by the government which led to the murders, Grech said. The government now must do what the public inquiry told it to do.

In a post on Facebook, European Parliament president Roberta Metsola said that lmost 2,800 days after a murder that shocked Malta, Gozo and Europe, the country has started to see some form of justice. "Finally. Too late," she wrote.

"Tomorrow, our fight for justice, for the full truth, will continue. "

PN MEP David Casa meanwhile said that it is a verdict which “brings us closer to securing justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia.”

“Now we must see convictions for those that masterminded the murder and covered it up. They are very long overdue,” he said.