Muscat to suggest candidates for the presidency

Opposition leader Joseph Muscat said today that he will be submitting to the Prime Minister a list of people who should be considered for appointment to the presidency once Dr Eddie Fenech Adami’s term expires in April.

Interviewed on TVM’s Dissett, due to be broadcast this evening, Dr Muscat said the proposals he would submit in January would include men and women both from within and from outside the political scene.

Replying to questions by Reno Bugeja, Dr Muscat reiterated that he is against the proposed underground extension to the museum of St John’s Co-Cathedral but admitted he had not discussed the matter with the St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation, although he was prepared to do so.

Dr Muscat said Labour would continue to insist in EU fora that the government should refund all those who paid VAT on top of their vehicle registration tax for the purchase of cars, saying they had been 'robbed'. Such refunds, he said, could be staggered over a number of years.