Prohibitory injunction over St Paul’s Bay local council situation provisionally upheld

A court yesterday provisionally upheld a request for a prohibitory injunction filed by Nationalist Party secretary-general Clyde Puli to “protect the democratic rights of the people of St Paul’s Bay and its surrounding localities by maintaining the PN’s majority within the local council.”

Puli said that the new mayor should be a PN member as the party had won the majority in the 2015 local council elections.

The mayor, Graziella Galea, recently resigned but will stay on as a PN councillor. She was due to face a motion of no confidence.

Two councillors, who have resigned from the party since Adrian Delia’s election, and who are now independent candidates, along with the PL councillors filed the motion of no confidence.

Puli claimed that the councillors who presented the motion were attempting to place a PL mayor in control of the local council.

He said that law makes it clear that the mayor must form part of the party that won the majority in the local council election.

PL statement

The Labour Party referred to the request for a prohibitory injunction to stop last night’s local council meeting as a continuation of mistakes that led this council to end up in the state it is currently in.

The PL noted the PN’s panicked state, being unable to keep its team unified.