Ex-Nationalist MP attends Labour event to make a point

Former Nationalist MP Louis Refalo was yesterday welcomed at a Labour Party activity in Ta' Ċenċ by leader Joseph Muscat who said he had become a member of the party.

Mr Refalo embraced Dr Muscat but when contacted denied he had become a member of the PL, adding that he had only attended the activity because he was very hurt at the way his party was treating him. He insisted he remained a member of the Nationalist Party and never renounced to its principles and values, which he deemed as the best way forward for the country and its people.

Mr Refalo, who was a member of Parliament between 1981 and 1996, said he had been boarded out following an operation some years ago.

He said he had given his life for the PN during the ugliest of times but he was now not being shown the respect he deserved and he was very hurt.

All he wanted, the 60-year-old former MP said, was to sit on a board of directors. He did not want to get paid for this, he just wanted to kill the time. He was a director of Sea Malta and of the Freeport in the past and was retained on the Freeport board even when Alfred Sant was Prime Minister.

Mr Refalo said that both the Prime Minister and Transport Minister Austin Gatt had indicated there would not be a problem with this before the election but he did not like Dr Gatt's tone when he last spoke to him.