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Editorial | Bernard Grech has missed out on an opportunity to acknowledge the division inside the party with a statement of his own, reflecting his role as party leader, before resolving the matter privately between both MPs
A joint declaration by Jason Azzopardi and Adrian Delia denied that hundreds of messages were exchanged between the former opposition leader and murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.
Jacob Borg fact-checks the declaration.
No communication ‘of relevance’
When rumours about the existence of messages between Adrian Delia and Yorgen Fenech first surfaced last year, Delia’s first tactic was to prevaricate.
Delia told
Times of Malta in June there was no communication “of relevance” with Fenech after the businessman was linked to 17 Black and government corruption.
Prior to the Whatsapp revelations, Delia had insisted he had no communication of relevance with Yorgen Fenech post-17 Black.
The Nationalist Party cancelled a meeting due on Thursday evening to discuss a Facebook spate between former leader Adrian Delia and fellow MP Jason Azzopardi.
The meeting was cancelled after the MPs issued a joint statement committing themselves to focus their energies on the good of the party.
The cancellation came hours after Delia had urged his supporters to stay away from party headquarters and follow proceedings quietly at home. He also said a serious, honest discussion was needed within the party.
The issue was sparked after Azzopardi won a libel case he instituted against a supporter of Delia.
In a reaction, Delia called on Azzopardi to publish messages he claimed to have linking him to murder suspect Yorgen Fenech and explain how he had access to them since he is not a member of the police force.
Azzopardi’s shock declaration: ‘It doesn’t result that hundreds of messages were exchanged between Yorgen Fenech and Delia’
PN executive that had to discuss Delia-Azzopardi Facebook spat is cancelled after MPs ‘make peace’ with joint statement in which Azzopardi declares that Delia ‘is not beholden to businesspersons’
6 May 2021, 7:18pm
by Kurt Sansone / Karl Azzopardi
PN headquarters
In a shocking declaration, the combative Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has said he is not aware of the existence of “hundreds” of messages exchanged between Yorgen Fenech and Adrian Delia as he made peace with the former leader.
The purported existence of these “hundreds” of messages had spurred the rebellion last year to oust Delia from the party leadership, an allegation championed by such MPs like Azzopardi and a party faction opposed to Delia.