The distribution of wealth is a focus that the Labour Party's new CEO Ivan Falzon would like to focus on.

"The Labour Party's foundation has always been, still is, and always will be people who were not necessarily born under a lucky star," he said in an interview with this media house.

Falzon continues that nobody can deny the wealth that the party has helped create - the last election was evidence enough that both sides were convinced that the country's financial position was a good one, because it became a "competition of goodies," he says.

"But I think the greatest challenge we face is ensuring that this wealth genuinely reaches everyone, and not necessarily by giving everyone the same percentage.  Those who are in greater need should receive more, and that is where I will continue to push the party," he says.

The party's so-called €1,000 'Super Bonus' is an example of this: €1,000 to someone who earns €100,000 in a year is 1% of their income, but the same €1,000 to someone who earns €20,000 in a year is worth 5% of their income, he explained.

The PL has, over the course of the last few years, found itself in court over a series of disputes surrounding some of its political clubs.

Several court cases revolving around PL clubs has seen the taxpayer have to fork out a total of €1.6 million in compensation after breaches in the rights of the owners of these properties.

Asked about such cases, Falzon specified that in many of these cases the legal action is mounted against the government, because it had been the government of the day which took the decision to allocate the properties to the PL.

"You could say that it was a Labour Government, but there were also cases where it was not a Labour Government that ultimately took that decision," he says.

In some of these cases, he continues, the PL fully owned a property, but had to relinquish it in favour of a government project, and the party was given another property in exchange. "In certain instances, however, it turned out that the replacement property was not actually fully owned by the government, and so legal proceedings were initiated against the government," he says.

Falzon says that the PL is currently going through a process whereby it works to obtain the definitive title of properties where it does not have that title from the government or private owners.  Indeed, the PL will be purchasing two properties in the coming weeks, Falzon adds.

Is it fair, though, that it is taxpayers who have to foot the bill for compensation?  Falzon reiterates that the legal action is against the government and that the situation is similar to what is happening with band clubs where the government is paying to remedy decisions which "were not perfect" several decades ago.

"As the Labour Party we are not denying the fact that the party did benefit. However, these were decisions taken by the Government of the day, and there are different circumstances," he said.

The first part of the interview was carried yesterday.