Joseph Muscat Responds To Legal Battle Defeat By Crying Foul And Mulling Action Overseas
Joseph Muscat has accused the courts of “treating him differently from everyone else” after suffering a legal defeat in an ongoing constitutional case.
“I believe that the court’s decision today continues to impinge on my fundamental rights,” Muscat said in a statement.
“I cannot understand how I am being treated differently to everyone else, and I will do my utmost to defend my rights – both in Malta and even overseas, if needs be.”
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Muscat today lost a battle in his constitutional case against the State Advocate in which he is claiming an ongoing magisterial inquiry into the hospitals deal breaches his rights.
Judge Doreen Clarke turned down Muscat’s fresh argument that the law which allows private citizens to request a magisterial inquiry breaches his right to a fair trial. In his case, the private citizen who requested a magisterial inquiry was NGO President Robert Aquilina.
Clarke ruled that Muscat’s request was an attempt to start a new case, although Muscat said he only filed it after “new facts emerged during the court case”.
PL MEP candidate Daniel Attard declared his support for the former Prime Minister, stating “we are Joseph Muscat” (aħna Joseph Muscat) and endorsing his call to remove magistrate Gabriella Vella from the inquiry.
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