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Labour Party renegade Anna Mallia today reveals for the first time the extent of the pressure she and her red comrades, including MPs, received from the party’s administration which she blames for the humiliating stillbirth of her Moviment Laburista Popolari.
In her weekly MaltaToday column, Mallia writes of “a barrage of threats and anonymous calls” made to people she claimed were members of her movement and who were affiliated with the Labour administration or MPs.
Admitting defeat, “at least for the time being”, Mallia says that the aborted plan was for a number of Labour MPs who formed part of her movement to leave the MLP after the Sette Giugno celebrations.
Stopping short of naming them, Mallia writes: “The Members of Parliament could not take the phone threats anymore and the pressure mounting on their family by these threats was stronger than their desire to make a change.”
She adds that without the support of MPs, her movement “cannot shake up the present Labour administration whose love of power comes before love of the party.”
The vociferous lawyer also mocks the General Workers Union’s elections last week, saying it was “a reflection of the sorry state of the elections for the officials of the Malta Labour Party.”
See Anna Mallia’s opinion
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