Former minister Joseph Brincat and new Labour candidate Sebastian Muscat this morning submitted their nominations for the casual election to fill the parliamentary seat vacated with the death of Karl Chircop.

Dr Chircop was elected from the fourth district.

The casual election will be held next week.

Meanwhile, the two candidate along with Gino Cauchi, who is expected to submit his nomination in the coming days, denied claims in the PN media that they had been urged by the MLP not to submit their nominations so that somebody else could be co-opted to the House. They said no one had even mentioned such a matter and it was the party itself which made the arrangements so that they could submit their nominations.

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