'Dead' women say they are alive

Three women yesterday claimed the Labour Party had filed applications before the revising officer in the Magistrates' Court to have their names struck off the electoral register on the grounds that they were dead.

Carmela Palmier, Josephine Portelli and Maria Borg filed judicial protests in the Civil Court against Labour Party general secretary Jimmy Magro.

They called on him to immediately retract applications for their removal from the electoral register.

All three women declared they were alive and that had they died their deaths would have been recorded at the public registry where Magro had free access to this information.

Magro received a monthly list of the persons who had died through representatives appointed for this purpose.

It was therefore clear that Magro had acted in bad faith when he had filed his applications against them.

The three women concluded their protests by calling on Magro to immediately withdraw his application and held him liable in damages.

The women also insisted upon a formal apology from Magro.

Dr Malcolm Mifsud signed the protests.