Tag: Partit Nazzjonalista
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Labour government refuses to discuss electricity crisis at the Public Accounts Committee
The Labour Party has rejected a request by the Nationalist Party at the Public Accounts Committee to discuss the ongoing power cuts and the government’s alleged €140 million expenditure on the electricity grid, with reference to a report published by the Auditor General in 2024. The report originally examined the power-cut crisis of 2023. Labour…
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PN reiterates to Chamber of Commerce that current population-driven growth model is unsustainable
The Nationalist Opposition’s shadow cabinet has yesterday met with the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the ongoing national electricity crisis. The meeting follows another meeting between the Chamber of Commerce and the government’s cabinet of ministers. During the meeting, the Nationalist Party reiterated the current model based on population-growth is unsutainable and that the government…
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Opposition MP Mark Anthony Sammut rebuffs claims that power-cuts are PN’s fault
Opposition MP and Shadow Energy Minister Mark Anthony Sammut has rebutted claims by the Labour government that the Nationalist Party is to blame for the electricity-grid crisis because of a lack of investment during its time in office. The Labour government has been in office continuously since 2013, while Miriam Dalli has served as Energy…
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The Nationalist Party calls for debate on power-cuts at the Public Accounts Committee
The Nationalist Party has called for an urgent meeting today of the Public Account Committee to be held today to discuss the National Auditor’s Report of the 2023 electricity crisis. The Nationalist Opposition is also calling for the resignation of Energy Minister Miriam Dalli and for a report delineating the causes of all power-cuts during…
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Opposition reiterates resignation of Minister Miriam Dalli: demand report on causes on all power-cuts
Earlier today, the Nationalist Party reiterated its call for Energy Minister Miriam Dalli to resign. In a scathing speech at a press conference in front of the Ministry for Energy building in Valletta, Opposition MP Mark Anthony Sammut asked how the €140 million allocated to the electricity grid upgrade had been spent and why this…
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The Nationalist Party presents a motion of no-confidence against Energy Minister: demand her to resign
Yesterday in Parliament, the Opposition presented a motion of no-confidence against Energy Minister Miriam Dalli. The Nationalist Party is also calling for her to resign. Minister Dalli had nothing to say about the ongoing electricity outages, which have left homes without power for hours and even days on end, other than her banal statement that…
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Premier Robert Abela is disconnected from reality – Opposition Leader Alex Borg
Opposition Leader Alex Borg has finally come out of his long break to do some opposition to the government, and this time he is right on point. The Nationalist Party leader has accused Prime Minister Robert Abela of being disconnected from reality after he told Times of Malta journalist Mark Laurence Å»ammit that the Maltese people…
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More capitulation to the Mafia by the Nationalist Party
There is currently ongoing one of the most important trials in the history of Maltese crime and politics, yet the Nationalist Party remains completely silent. There have been no tributes to the murdered journalist, no statements about Keith Schembri’s involvement with Melvin Theuma and his phantom government job, and no apparent concern over the fact…
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Banquo is back
My favourite commenter of this website is back after a seemingly long break from posting. I’m reproducing one of his latest comments here. I fully agree with him here. The Nationalist Party has completely abandoned its role as an opposition party and it will probably fall into further irrelevance in the next five years, because…
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Nationalist Party demands publication of gas contract with BP
The Nationalist Party has issued a statement today demanding the full publication of the government’s contract with BP. This is the way to go. As far as I know, this is the first time that the Nationalist Party has formally and officially demanded full transparency on the government’s energy contracts. Finally, politics has begun moving…
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PN reduces vote gap with Labour by 45%
The Nationalist Party has reduced Labour’s vote gap by 45% in the 2026 general election, cutting Labour’s majority from 39,474 votes in 2022 to 21,721 votes this year. In 2022, the Labour Party won 162,707 votes against the PN’s 123,233 votes, giving Labour a majority of 39,474 votes. This year, Labour won 158,444 votes while…
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Jason Azzopardi urges Opposition to address corrupt practices in the general election
In a post published recently on social media, previous PN MP Jason Azzopardi is urging the Nationalist Party to take on an investigation about corrupt practices by the Labour Party during the last general election. In his post, Jason Azzopardi also revealed that he has been discarded by the Nationalist Party with the leadership thinking…
