Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Son Asks Whether 2017 Snap Election Was Linked To His Mother’s Assassination
Andrew Caruana Galizia has questioned whether Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s decision to call a snap election in 2017 was in any way linked to the plot to assassinate his mother, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
“Now more than ever Malta needs to know whether it went to early elections in 2017 so that Keith Schembri could commission my mother’s assassination without bringing down the government,” Caruana Galizia said.
Now more than ever Malta needs to know whether it went to early elections in 2017 so that Keith Schembri could commission my mother’s assassination without bringing down the government. https://t.co/YqBXYSo5wx
— Andrew Caruana Galizia (@acaruanagalizia) November 28, 2019
Muscat called a snap election in May 2017, a year early, and ended up winning it by a landslide.
The Prime Minister said he went to the polls early because he was concerned that the Maltese economy would suffer in the wake of Caruana Galizia’s allegations that the Panama company Egrant belonged to his wife.
However, Caruana Galizia noted that the domain name for www.laqwazmien.com, which was to become the Labour Party’s election campaign slogan, was registered on 7th April, 13 days before she published the Egrant story.
“For the last month I have tried in vain to break through the concrete wall of popular conviction – including the conviction of the European press – that Joseph Muscat called the general election in response to the Egrant Inc story which this website broke on 20 April,” Caruana Galizia wrote. “He did not. And I knew he did not because in early April plans for the general election were already so far advanced that word was leaking out to me from producers of campaign collateral and others who had been commissioned to work on materials necessary for the election itself.”
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