Yesterday in parliament, Opposition MP Karol Aquilina noted that according to the law for the reform on Magisterial Inquiries proposed by the government, it is clear that the government is trying to close all ongoing investigations. This is because the law will be applied retroactively on all ongoing cases. You can read the full text of the government’s proposed here where this particular measure is being proposed in article 11.
The government wants to impose a two-year deadline on Magisterial Inquiries and ongoing investigations which have surpassed this deadline will have to be sent to the Attorney-General for a decision. We know already that Attorney-General, who is in regular contact with the Justice Minister, and just like her friend and colleague Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa, is doing her best to ensure that Labour politicians are neither investigated nor brought to court.
The Justice Minister is pretending that having Inquiring Magistrates depend on the whims and decisions of his good friend, Viktoria Buttigieg, is actually a good thing.
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