European MEPs believe PN leader lacks integrity - Alfred Sant

Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant said that should the alleged money laundering by the PN be raised at the European Parliament, MEPs would believe that the PN and its leader lack integrity and honesty.

In his blog on The Malta Independent yesterday, Dr Sant said that for someone like him who is a member of the European Parliament, a big dilemma arose once the scandal burst about the alleged money laundering by the PN, which is in flagrant violation of the law regarding party financing.

“Should the PN’s own example be followed, so that in all arising opportunities within meetings of the European Parliament, the issues raised by this scandal are highlighted? To do so, one could follow a number of models. Like for instance, the treatment meted out to Toni Abela, driven by an underhand and extremely vicious campaign. Or should one adopt the approach followed with regard to Leo Brincat, comprising open and underground personal attacks? A third way would be to copy how PN representatives have behaved in the European Parliament committee that is dealing with the scandal of the Panama papers.”

Dr Sant said that all three models would be quite effective in showing how rightly or wrongly, the PN, and mostly its leader, lack all integrity and honesty. MEPs would immediately believe this. And why bother about the problem that along with the PN and its leader, the reputation of the country as a whole will suffer? As it happens, both the party and its leader never seemed to consider this a problem, Dr Sant said.