Candidates require better vetting, says president of PN's administrative council

The newly appointed president of the PN, Karol Aquilina, says the way candidates are chosen for local and national elections needs to be revised and taken seriously.

1 November 2011, 12:00am
by James Debono

1 min read

As President of the PN’s administrative council, Karol Aquilina is expected to oversee the party’s commercial companies and electoral structures. He is also responsible for the vetting of candidates standing for elections.

Interviewed by James Debono, Aquilina says the way local council candidates are chosen has to be reviewed due to difficulties faced by the PN with several candidates and mayors elected who had to resign.

“We surely cannot afford to choose candidates on the eve of an election. The process of becoming a candidate should be spread over a period of time and not a few days,” Aquilina said.

Aquilina proposes several factors, including experience in administrative structures, that would help improve the selection of candidates and uses his personal experience to explain what the selection process requires in order to be taken seriously.

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, ...