Zammit Dimech says government could have avoided minister’s resignation

Foreign and European Affairs Committee chairman Francis Zammit Dimech says motion by backbencher Franco Debono could have been seen sooner and chaos avoided.

Francis Zammit Dimech says Opposition is making some risky promises.
Francis Zammit Dimech says Opposition is making some risky promises.

In an interview with Sunday newspaper Illum, Nationalist MP Francis Zammit Dimech says that Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s resignation could have been avoided.

“I believe it would have been a completely different story had Franco Debono’s motion been put forward for discussion in Parliament prior to the motion submitted by the Opposition,” Zammit Dimech says.

However, Zammit Dimech says government is confident in light of the vote of confidence to be taken on Monday evening.

Read the full interview in tomorrow’s edition of Illum.