MLP hits out at new Pullicino Orlando comment
The Labour Party said today that Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando was continuing to "lie" in the Mistra case.
The party referred to Dr Pullicino Orlando's second post in timesofmalta.com last Sunday (under the story MLP asks Gonzi, Pullicino Orlando, to explain timesofmalta.com comment) where he said that it was not true that before the general election he had denied knowledge of the Mistra project.
In his post Dr Pullicino Orlando wrote:
"I own a plot of land near the sea which has been rented out to others for some time now. Three years ago, these others applied for a permit to build an underground lavatory and an open air dance floor less than two metres high.' This is a quote taken from a 'Talking Point' entitled 'Street Corner Gossip' which I wrote and the Times published on 1/3/08. I declared I knew about the application which the Labour Party attacked me with (which is simply a paved area and a stand less than two metres high with wooden flooring and with a capacity of a few hundred people-not thousands as claimed by Dr. Alfred Sant) before Alfred Sant held his famous press conference at Mistra after he had given me the slip in Gozo. How some people can persist in saying that I said I knew 'absolutely nothing' is beyond me."
The MLP said that in contrast, on March 1 in his first reaction to Dr Sant's comments about Mistra, Dr Pullicino Orlando first declared he had nothing to do with the Mistra disco project and then he added that he did not even know exactly what the project involved.
The MLP issued a word for word transcript of Dr Pullicino's remarks at the time, saying that before March 8 Dr Pullicino Orlando had done everything he could to distance himself from the project.
Now, seven weeks after the election, through his comments on the website, Dr Pullicino Orlando was trying to give the false impression that he had never hidden anything.
Facts which emerged after the election confirmed that Dr Pullicino Orlando was actually the prime mover behind the project and, according to media reports, had made pressure for the development permits to be issued, the MLP said.
That Dr Pullicino knew everything about the project also emerged from the contract for the lease of the land, siged last January 17, more so as over the 15 year lease he was to receive €1.9 million, the MLP said.
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Charles J Buttigieg
Apr 30th 2008, 07:13
Lets put it down to a simple example:
A wife caught her husband red handed in an act of adultery.He assaulted and hit her.The court acquitted the husband on the assault and battery charges due to lack of evidence and there is no law against adultery.
And so they lived happily ever after. They both vote PN.
mark tanti
Apr 29th 2008, 21:03
Labourist, be patient and wait until the end of the investigations. Remember the John Dalli case were it was proved in court that all allegations against him were untrue.
Mind you if JPO is found guilty of any wrong doing we Nationalists will be first to put pressure on our party to remove JPO from all his positions in the NP.
danny attard
Apr 29th 2008, 20:11
Well said Mr Ellul. There is only one thing I would add...the ruin of Mistra at the expense of financial gain...I can not understand why wait for Police authorities. Should there be any criminal act than the incident will just grow in gravity. As things stand, the NP is called upon to act. Breaking most code-of-conduct rules do not equate to a criminal offence. So are we now implying that we are to judge our politicians on criminal acts alone?
R.Borg
Apr 29th 2008, 18:54
Min Dahak b'min
j micallef
Apr 29th 2008, 18:23
Peasant farmers' wives knitting below the guillotine platform in morbid anticipation of watching one gory blooded head after another rolling into a wicker basket during the French Revolution peoples' thwarted brand of justice, were just as dead certain that each convicted and bewildered artistrocat was guilty as hell.
Why not act as civilised citizens of a humane and evoluted nation by waiting - yes, waiting as long as is necessary - until the final vertict is out? Then - if guilt is really proven - one may opt to bay for blood, or else pray for and console the victim who foolishly fell foul of the law and lost everything he ever aspired for in the process, depending of course, on one's outlook on life and ability to empathise. The 'new' MLP should set the pace and take a leap of quality in this process, showing to all those who wish to be reunited with the party, that it has truly regained its social soul.
Michael Ellul
Apr 29th 2008, 17:30
It is irrelevant to the police outcome. The police is concerned if there is or was a criminal offence. There is also political responsibility. Dr Gonzi is not pressing on political responsibility as if it does not exist. Dr JPO should hold political responsibility for his knowledge of ruining Mistra and he did nothing to stop it. Dr Gonzi should also give us citizens proof that under his government politicians are responsible for their actions and all of them should be politically responsible for their mistakes. This is politics and no way with a relative majority should any one We are in EU and our MP's all of them from any side of parliament should resign if politically corrupt.
Charles J Buttigieg
Apr 29th 2008, 16:55
This is a clamorous act of betrayal. JPO did not say the truth and has been caught in the act.
By all the rules of democracy, this is unbecoming and a clear breach of ethics by an MP bidding for public office. There seems to be something seriously wrong in this country.
I. M. Dingli
Apr 29th 2008, 16:29
I can't really understand what is taking so long for the police investigations to be over. In my opinion this is a clear cut case and action needs to be taken immediately.
Paul Giordimaina
Oct 11th 2011, 09:06
You are sitting in the wrong seat Mr Dingli you should be a judge lol.