ADRIAN DELIA

Financial audit by respectable firm to be published as soon as it is concluded

Nationalist Party leadership contender Adrian Delia yesterday said that a respectable auditing firm was conducting an audit into his assets and that the report would be published once it was concluded.

Delia was addressing PN councillors and tesserati at the St Paul’s Bay PN club.

On Saturday, blogger and journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia reported that a development company in which Delia held a nine per cent share, owed €7 million to a bank.

The bank recently enforced a declaration of debt on the company. Delia had previously said he would publish his declaration of assets only after he was elected PN leader.

But yesterday he said the audit would be published as soon as it was finished.

He insisted that there were “hidden interests” by those who wanted to harm the Nationalist Party and him personally by trying to get him out of the race.

“The wave in favour of a ‘New way’ for the PN is worrying our adversaries, who are trying to do all they can to create infighting. I want to unite the party so that it can become a force for workers and for all people,” Delia said.

Asked if he was willing to work with everyone in the PN if he were to be elected leader, Delia said the party had many people of goodwill who wished to be heard and these should be allowed to contribute. “Once this process is over we have to unite under one leader and work to win the election.”