UPDATE: No to divorce campaign insist that their billboards have nothing to do with the PN
Nationalist Party billboards were carrying anti-divorce slogans this morning. The slogan was on a violet background - the same colour as the IVA (yes) movement. But later No to divorce spokesman Kevin Papagiorcopolo, who until two weeks ago was the Curia's PRO insisted that the billboard were contracted from a private contractor.
UPDATE:
The No to divorce campaign said that the billboards it had on display were carried out through the services of a private contractor not the PN, The spokesman refused to mention who the private contractor was and what fee was being paid for the billboards. The spokesman also refused to divulge where the posters of the billboards were created.
The location of the billboard and the stands are located in precisely the same place and use the same structure as those of the Nationalist party.
Mr Papagiorcopolo said that the movement would divulge all relevant details about the campaign after the referendum.
_________
The campaign for No have involved several top Nationalist militants, and they include Anton Attard who is also the PBS CEO and Lawrence Zammit, director of MISCO and a key strategist for the Nationalist party. Other key promoters for the NO campaign are (Father) Joe Borg, a media studies lecturer and a former PRO for the Catholic Church.
The No movement is supported by the Maltese Catholic Church and the Nationalist party and is campaigning against the introduction of divorce, it has also set up its first billboards with the slogan - FLIMKIEN GHALL-ULIEDNA - Together for our children. These were erected yesterday evening in crossroads in Malta. The slogan follows the Nationalist party's slogan, FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBLI - Together everything is possible.
The billboards are part of a campaign to highlight the fear that the introduction of divorce will bring upon Maltese society. The YES movement has countered this argument by stating that divorce is not the cause for matrimonial discord but rather serves to give a second chance to those who wish to remarry.
