In the Press: Ministers want Mizzi to resign but back PM's decision

MaltaToday

Four senior Cabinet members - Louis Grech, George Vella, Evarist Bartolo and Leo Brincat - believe that Konrad Mizzi should resign from his post as minister, saying that an elected official cannot justify having secret financial dealings in Panama.

The Times of Malta

A report by the Commissioner for Voluntary Organizations for 2015 showed that parts of a €50,000 fund were handed out to ineligible entities last year by the ministry for Gozo. 

In-Nazzjon

PN leader Simon Busuttil has called a second national anti-corruption protest as well as calling for the sacking of Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri or, failing that, the removal of Mizzi, Schembri and PM Joseph Muscat. 

L-Orizzont

Minister Konrad Mizzi has filed a libel suit against the Times of Malta newspaper, after it ran a front page story linking one of the alleged shareholders of his company, Leticia Montoya Moran, to a Nicaraguan corruption scandal.

The Malta Independent

The Nationalist party has not excluded the possibility of legal action in a bid to fight a legal notice that restricts the use of billboards by political parties. The PN called this damaging to the freedom of expression.