We will not allow foreigners to make money from publicly owned assets – Adrian Delia

Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia this morning said that the government should accept that Vitals Global Healthcare and the American University of Malta did not succeed in what they set out to do and they (the government) should now look into getting the state’s hospitals and the Żonqor site back.

Replying to a question during a Radio 101 interview as to whether the PN were being ‘negative’, Delia said: “It is positive to stop the government when we feel they are going to make a mistake. We are speaking to the government, going in for debates, and the government refuses to take heed. The government is being negative.”

Referring to the American University of Malta, Delia said: “Only 14 students turned up – they did not succeed; let us accept that and see how we are going to get back what the foreign investors did not manage to do.”

Referring to Vitals Global Healthcare, he said: “The hospital project was not successful either. So be positive and let us see how we are going to get the state’s hospitals back – that is a positive spirit.”

“We are going to see that what belongs to the Maltese people is given to the people,” he said earlier. “The PN is going to be a strong opposition to get back what rightfully belongs to the Maltese.”

Delia said that VGH taking over the hospitals “stank from Day 1,” and reiterated that the government “has something to hide,” as the contract was never published in its entirety.

‘You start to understand why criminals in our country feel comfortable’

With reference to the case of an assistant police commissioner allegedly involved in an act of domestic violence, as well as the case, over the weekend, in which three police officers were found in possession of drugs, Delia said that it is not coincidence that “they think they are above the law.”

“These things happen because a type of attitude has, from the commissioner downward, begun to flourish, where even in the case of serious wrongdoing, consequences do not follow and nobody is held to account – everyone thinks they can do whatever they want,” he said.

“This culture of ‘U ejja, it doesn’t matter’, of decreasing the level of standards when it comes to who can enter the police force... this worries me as a citizen, and as a father,” Delia went on to say.

“This is supposed to be one of the safest countries, and then you start to worry and to understands why criminals in our country feel comfortable.”