Civil society activists plan protest demanding resignations

Panama Papers | Civil society network plans non-partisan protest demanding resignations of minister and top aide who opened offshore companies in Panama

12 April 2016, 11:35am
by Matthew Vella

1 min read

Protestors outside the House of Representatives back in 2015

A new protest calling for the resignation of energy minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, will take place in May, this time led by a civil society activists organised by Michael Briguglio.

The former Alternattiva Demokratika chairperson said the protest will be called by the ‘Civil Society Network’, which had launched an appeal on Facebook calling for signatures asking for the resignation of Mizzi and Schembri when news first broke of Mizzi’s and Schembri’s offshore interests in Panama.

The protest is being convened as a “non-partisan civil society protest” for Saturday, 7 May, at 10am in front of parliament.

Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...