Production of Muscat’s New Year video message handled by OPM
The much-maligned New Year’s address by the Prime Minister was produced by his office, a PQ confirms
12 January 2016, 7:40pm
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
The video features Joseph Muscat sharing a coffee with a young couple who have just purchased their first home.
It was the Office of the Prime Minister that handled the production of his video message for the New Year, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat confirmed in a parliamentary question raised by Nationalist MP Clyde Puli.
Muscat said that the couple that featured in the video were “not actors”.
The young couple became the most discussed feature of the video after it transpired that they probably did not benefit from the government’s tax-exemption scheme for first-time home buyers because they purchased their property in 2008.
The Agius couple was outed by the press as scions of the Construct Furniture firm.
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