Rosianne Cutajar Denies Swearing At Jason Azzopardi As She Reports PN MP To Parliament
Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar has reported PN MP Jason Azzopardi to Parliament for breaching parliamentary privilege after he uploaded a Facebook post with claims that she had sworn at him in the House.
“I’m not a vulgar person,” Cutajar said, denying that she ever used the alleged swear words, neither in Parliament nor outside it. She added that Azzopardi’s post implies that Speaker Anglu Farrugia had heard her use foul language but took no action over it.
Farrugia will take a decision on the privilege complaint in another sitting.
Azzopardi wrote a post after author and former PL delegate Mark Camilleri published an SMS conversation between Fenech and businesswoman Diane Izzo in which they discussed Cutajar’s speech during a parliamentary debate in November 2018.
During the conversation, Fenech said Cutajar had told Azzopardi he would do well to try and be half the man he [Fenech] was, and lambasted the PN MP as “spiteful and desperate” (ja mejjet bil-ġuħ aħdar).
“When [Azzopardi] responded, he said ‘Hon, the courts will see. Off mic, she told him ‘You’ll see it in your fucking family, you arsehole’ (loosely translated from ‘se tarah żobb f’għoxx familtek ja liba’).”
Azzopardi said Cutajar had called him out because he and former leader Simon Busuttil were the only two PN MPs who had criticised Fenech by name after he was revealed to be the owner of 17 Black.
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