Watch: Peter Agius And Daniel Attard Engage In Fiery Debate Over Magisterial Inquiry
PL MEP candidate Daniel Attard and PN MEP candidate Peter Agius locked heads over the implications of the Vitals magisterial inquiry and the political fallout in a Lovin Malta debate.
Agius went on the offensive from the get-go, challenging Attard to “renounce” Joseph Muscat, who is facing charges of corruption, money laundering and criminal association.
“I expect Daniel Attard to renounce Joseph Muscat if he doesn’t have a part of the cake like Muscat seems to have. It seems that Muscat got a slice of cake from the greatest theft in Maltese history, where €400 million was spent on hospitals that never materialised.”
“If you go to St Luke’s, you will see pigeon nests and risk getting bitten by a rat. It’s run down with weed growing out of the pavement, when they had promised us three state-of-the-art hospitals.”
He suggested that Prime Minister Robert Abela has heavily criticised magistrate Gabriella Vella because he is afraid that Muscat could “drag him down with him”.
Attard said that people aren’t angry at Muscat but at the Nationalist Party and the “Establishment”, “which wants power above all else”.
“Robert Abela has nothing to be afraid of. He was the first to ask for the inquiry to be published and he is the only Prime Minister who always stops to speak to journalists, unlike Roberta Metsola who ran away from MCAST students and got the police to kick out protesting students in Austria.”
He also called out Metsola for not taking part in any debates so far this European Parliament election campaign.
“This election has taken on a new dimension and we must give a response to those who want to take the people’s sovereignty away from them. David Casa recently declared a holy war against Labourites and said he is ready to use all means at his disposal, and that’s what he’s doing. They provoke, and we vote.”
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