Il-Mument pointed out that Chircop’s father Philip Chircop recently resigned his PN membership while speaking to Adrian Delia, an embarrassing incident for the Opposition leader which was caught on camera.

Chircop, a former personal assistant to Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, had told Delia that he was resigning because he had founded the grandparents NGO Nanniet Malta and didn’t want to be associated with a political party. However, Il-Mument suggested that his daughter’s application to LEAD may have had something to do with it.

“Our sources in PL explained that, in light of her application to militate in LEAD, one can understand more than ever why Philip Chircop went down the path he did when retracting his membership,” the paper wrote.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat blasted Il-Mument today, accusing the PN paper of personally attacking Lynn Chircop and her family to discourage other women from joining LEAD.

“[The article] betrays the way these people think and it is a typical example of machismo,” he said. “They pretend to be in favour of equality and women’s rights but then use the first available opportunity to pounce on who they think is the weakest link, single out girls and make fun of them to try and discourage other women from entering public life.”

“I want to give heart to women thinking of entering public life; [the PL] is the natural home for women who want to involve themselves and I’d like to see full solidarity from women and men to these women.”

If Lynn Chircop does eventually make it all the way to Parliament, she will become the second former Eurovision singer in the house. Opposition MP Claudette Buttigieg had represented Malta in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Desire’.

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