Neville Gafà said Saturday he had sent a letter of resignation to the Office of the Prime Minister following the earlier publication of a post on his website. Gafà announced that he has tendered for his resignation on Saturday, effective immediately.
At 1:50pm on Saturday afternoon, the person of trust within the Parliamentary Secretariat for Social Dialogue "apologised" on his social media page for a blog post he had written and published on his personal website in the early hours of that same morning.
The article - which he later clarified was about parents of LGBTIQ+ children and that children should be guided away from homosexual and queer "confusion" through "common sense" - has since been removed from his website.
"In relation to an article I published early this morning, I would like to apologise if I have in any way hurt the feelings of any people," Gafà stated.
He made clear that what he had declared in this deleted article was strictly his opinion, and not the official position of the Labour Party. Gafà said that this is evident by "the great achievements that have been made in our country when it comes to minorities."
"Therefore, I have submitted my resignation to the Office of the Prime Minister with immediate effect," Gafà concluded.
Gafà got himself in serious hot water recently when he removed flowers and wreaths from Daphne Caruana Galizia's memorial site, located at the Great Siege Monument opposite the Valletta Law Courts, just a few hours after they had been placed there during a vigil to commemorate the eighth anniversary of her assassination. Some of these flowers and wreaths had been placed there by several embassies in Malta, out of respect towards the murdered journalist and her family.
Earlier Saturday, Gafà also posted comments criticising Daphne Caruana Galizia, sayong "We Condemn How She Died, But We Also Condemn How She Lived." This post is still up for viewing on his blog.
Neville Gafà was named as a person of trust within the Parliamentary Secretariat for Social Dialogue, under junior minister Andy Ellul, within the Office of the Prime just two months ago.
