The Opposition said it will be moving a motion to repeal a legal notice published in the past days prohibiting female lawyers from wearing trousers in court.
But this may not happen at all since a later legal notice amends that referred to by the Opposition leader when speaking in Żurrieq this morning
D Muscat told supporters in Żurrieq this morning that the notice was making it compulsory for female lawyers to wear skirts to court. Although 2009 was round the corner, he said, women were not being left free to wear what they wanted.
This was a small but important matter for it was useless to have equality laws unless males and females were treated in the same manner.
But while the original legal notice states:
“Lady advocates appearing before the said courts shall wear black or blue or charcoal grey suits, or a white blouse and a black skirt under a black gown.”
A later one adds "or trousers" after "a white blouse and a black skirt".
Dr Muscat also reiterated that Labour will also be taking Parliamentary action against the legal notice announcing the new water and electricity tariffs
He criticised the Prime Minister for not having yet said anything abour the “spying” case on the people by his party’s general secretary.
More than 15 public employees, he said, had been called for meetings at the PN's headquarters during office hours. The meetings included the involvement of people who were in secret service in the 1980s and among those present were state company chairmen.
“This is not the European country we want to live in,” Dr Muscat said.
At the beginning of his speech, Dr Muscat congratulated Maltese singer Kevin Borg who on Friday won the Swedish Idol contest.
Kevin, Dr Muscat said, had embarked on his career with One Productions and his achievements showed that the Maltese could be successful.
“If we believe in ourselves, we have the key to success. We should look ahead and work together, believing in our potential,” he said.
Dr Muscat said that could see symbols of success even in localities around Malta and Gozo where political and social clubs worked miracles with very little resources.
He said that during his visits to localities, he also toured PN clubs because he wanted to show that the time had come to close old chapters and open the doors to the future.
Although harsh, criticism had to be on points on principle. This was the leap in the quality of politics the country so greatly needed, the Opposition leader said.