UPDATED: Muscat takes a PN view of MLP headquarters!

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Joseph Muscat has been admiring the view of the MLP headquarters this morning, from the new PN headquarters.

Dr Muscat is being shown around the new PN headquarters, inaugurated last Saturday, by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and PN General Secretary Joe Saliba. Dr Muscat is accompanied by deputy leader Toni Abela and general secretary Jason Micallef.

All are accompanied by their spouses.

This is Dr Muscat’s second visit to PN headquarters since his appointment, the first having been a courtesy meeting with Dr Gonzi.

The leaders were in a jovial mood this morning as they toured the various sections of the new headquarters, chatting to the staff.

In the newsroom, Dr Muscat joked that he had it in his mind that no one would ever mentioned him there!

In comments to the press Dr Muscat said politics would henceforth be about confronting ideas without antagonism. "Where there is agreement, we will say so. This is a spirit of serenity which the country needs."

Dr Gonzi thanked the MLP delegation for its visit and augured that they would continue to work together in the national interest, They might not agree on everything, but they agreed that they needed to work for the good of the country, he said.