News • 20 July 2003

Minor op keeps Sant away

Unknown to the media and most Nationalist MP’s Alfred Sant absence in the ratification of the European Union treaty had nothing whatsoever to do with making a political point.

The Labour leader who was not present for last Monday’s parliamentary sitting could not attend because he was recovering from a minor surgical operation. A close aide insisted that it was nothing serious and that rumour mongering about Dr Sant’s health were exaggerations and inventions.

Last Monday’s parliamentary sitting was given a miss by Dr Anglu Farrugia and Marie Louise Coleiro but the two euro-sceptics had informed the party’s whip they could not attend.