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Valletta vice-mayor Alfred Zammit threatens to destabilise local council
The issue stems from the Valletta local council's twinning agreement with Portsmouth
14 May 2025, 5:22pm
Matthew Farrugia
Matthew Farrugia
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Valletta vice mayor Alfred Zammit has clashed with the PL local council numerous times and has frequently challenged mayor Olaf McKay (inset)
Valletta vice-mayor Alfred Zammit has threatened to destabilise the capital city's local council over a twinning agreement with Portsmouth.
On Tuesday, Valletta mayor Olaf McKay went to the UK coastal town of Portsmouth to sign an agreement which strengthened the relationship between the two localities.
A day later, Zammit took to Facebook to speak about the agreement's "incompatibility" and the fact that he was "ignored despite being democratically elected by the people of Valletta."
"...those who are supposed to act want to hear the sound of a bell that rang in Għargħur," Zammit said referring to Francesca Attard. Attard is a Għargħur local councillor who was elected on the PN ticket but later announced that she will continue serving as an independent councillor.
She has recently joined Labour councillors in tabling a motion of no confidence in the locality's PN mayor.
In his post, Alfred Zammit, who had served as Valletta mayor in the previous term, stated that Valletta should be paired with Cortona in Italy as it is the birthplace of Francesco Laparelli who constructed Malta's capital city.
Zammit clarified that he has nothing against Portsmouth or its residents, but maintained that unlike Valletta, it is not a capital city, nor is it classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Matthew Farrugia is a staff reporter at MaltaToday
