Chris Said: PN should postpone upcoming internal elections

Nationalist Party MP Chris Said has said that the party should postpone the elections for General Council President and executive members, which are scheduled to take place this Saturday and Sunday.

Writing on Facebook, Said, who narrowly lost out to current party leader Adrian Delia in last month’s leadership race, said that, following the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia last week, it “did not make sense for the party’s 1,500 council members to be continuously bombarded with phone calls, letters, emails and sms by a large number of contestants”.

“The Nationalist Party should be sensitive enough not to also take business as usual approach when our country is passing through such a grave and unprecedented situation,” wrote Said.

The Gozitan MP was also critical of Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat who is currently in Dubai attending a Global Citizenship Seminar organised by Henley and Partners, where he gave a keynote speech.

“I can’t understand during such a grave situation the Prime Minister can leave the country to address a meeting on the sale of passports. It is either gross insensitivity or else he is contractually obliged to do so. Both are equally unacceptable,” insisted Said.

In a statement issued yesterday, the PN said  “a serious” Prime Minister would have stayed in Malta and held a parliamentary debate on the assassination and civil society’s requests.