[WATCH] ‘Australia Hall… a Christmas gift from Labour’
Nationalist youth section plant massive gift ribbon on contentious Labour Party property
The Nationalist Party's youth section MZPN mounted a stunt in protest at the government's controversial decision to stop a legal case by the Lands Department, against the Labour party to reclaim Australia Hall.
"It's a €10 million gift to Labour, which Joseph Muscat is giving the party," MZPN president and European Parliament candidate Kevin Plumpton told the press today.
The former colonial building was granted to the Labour Party as compensation for the transfer of land the party owned, on the site of the Malta Shipbuilding corporation.
The PN says the premises and land are valued at €10 million and that the site happens to be on the fringes of the land where the People's Republic of China wants to develop a new embassy.
The permit for the Chinese embassy was awarded by MEPA under a Nationalist administration.