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WATCH: PN MEP David Casa Gets Party Leaders Past And Present Confused

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The leadership gaffe is at 2:43

A Freudian slip or a genuine mistake? Nationalist MEP David Casa seemingly got confused about who is in charge of his party tonight, referring to Adrian Delia as “Adrian Busuttil”.

Addressing a PN event at the Fosos along with other MEP candidates, Casa warned that the government is in bed with criminals and corrupt people and that it has taken over the country’s institutions.

“The Attorney General has become a government puppet, and it had to be the PN’s new leader Adrian Busuttil to sue him in court [over his refusal to publish the Egrant inquiry] to force him to say why he is acting as he is,” Casa said.

The crowd instantly reacted displeasingly to his slip of the tongue and Casa corrected himself shortly afterwards.

Casa was one of several PN politicians who had criticised Delia’s initial decision a few months ago to suspend Busuttil from the PN parliamentary group in the wake of the conclusion of the Egrant inquiry. After Casa published a leaked FIAU report into the mysterious Dubai company 17 Black, Delia refused to stand by the report, simply stating it must be investigated.

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David Casa (second from right) at the PN’s Independence Day festivities

Unlike other MEPs and MEP candidates, Casa has been conspicuously absent from Delia’s campaign so far, very rarely attending village feasts and political activities where the Opposition leader is present. Instead, he has so far focused his energy into promoting calls for justice for assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and into demanding investigations into alleged corruption linked to the Panama Papers.

However, he insisted in his speech that the PN will contest next year’s European Parliament elections as a united force.

“The PL will want to divide us, as it does in every election, but it wont manage,” he said. “We will be one team, one party, to fight corruption and criminality and to defends the interests of workers, as well as justice and liberty.”

Casa also pledged that the public will soon know who owns 17 Black, one of two Dubai companies that, according to a leaked Nexia BT email, were supposed to channel $1 million a year into the Panama companies of Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi and OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri.

“The government knows who owns 17 Black, the FIAU knows who owns 17 Black, and I assure you that you too will also find out who it belongs to in the coming weeks.”

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