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Fascist candidate stands up for Fr Mark

Joe Meli, the fascist MLP candidate who dishes out business cards with an email address that starts with DVX - short for Duce – has castigated this newspaper for describing radical priest Father Mark Montebello as a renegade.

Mr Meli’s candidature for the Labour party at the forthcoming local council elections appears to have the backing of most of the top echelons of the party.

Mr Meli a self-confessed extreme right-winger and former Nationalist diehard, was last seen posing at a press conference held by Labour leader Alfred Sant.

Next to him stood Jimmy Magro, the secretary general who has refused to comment about the candidate’s fascist tendencies.

Incidentally, Mr Meli told this newspaper that he does not utter Sieg Heil when displaying the fascist salute but AVE, the Italian fascist salute.

He added that he believed in Europe but that he could only see Rome and not Brussels as the capital of Europe.

When asked if he would agree to be interviewed, the Labour candidate said that he would have to ask for clearance from the party.