Identity Malta refusing to give information to Electoral Commission – Beppe Fenech Adami

According to PN Deputy Leader Beppe Fenech Adami, “Identity Malta is still refusing to give the Electoral Commission updated information on new Maltese citizens eligible to vote.”

Dr Fenech Adami was replying to questions by TMI’s Content Director Pierre Portelli in this week’s edition of INDEPTH which is available on www.independent.com.mt.

Dr Fenech Adami was referring to stories that appeared in The Malta Independent on Sunday citing an internal exercise by Identity Malta that identified those people with ID Card numbers ending with a ‘P’. The documents from the internal exercise were first branded by the Prime Minister as fabricated by TMI but yesterday Identity Malta took ownership of the internal documents which were leaked to this newspaper.

Asked what the PN intends to do on this situation, given that a general election is close, the PN deputy leader said that “we will do everything possible to ensure that the election is clean of any dubious votes.”

In the meantime the PN deputy leader for party affairs denied having a conflict of interest of the same nature Mario de Marco had with the DB Group in the ITS land transfer and the construction of a high-rise tower in St George’s Bay.

Asked to state whether he gives legal services to construction magnate Charles Polidano, who is no stranger to controversial projects such as the Ħal Farruġ Montekristo and the Riviera Hotel in Mtarfa, Fenech Adami denied his involvement with the businessman, yet adding that should he be faced with a conflict of interest he would make a decision thereon.

During the programme, Dr Fenech Adami was asked on the state of the PN and if he believes the party can win the next general election. Beppe Fenech Adami conceded that for the PN to win it is not enough to rely on the scandals of the PL government but people need to be inspired by PN’s politics.