Updated: President pays his respects as country mourns Guido de Marco

Adds call by Labour Party delegation: President George Abela paid his respects to Guido de Marco this morning as the nation mourned the former President. Acting Prime Minister Tonio Borg and former Presidents Eddie Fenech Adami and Ugo Mifsud Bonnici...

Adds call by Labour Party delegation:

President George Abela paid his respects to Guido de Marco this morning as the nation mourned the former President.

Acting Prime Minister Tonio Borg and former Presidents Eddie Fenech Adami and Ugo Mifsud Bonnici also filed past the body as the start of three days of lying in state at the Palace in Valletta.

President Abela was joined by the members of the de Marco family.

A Labour Party delegation paid its respects in the afternoon. It was led by Michelle Muscat, the Opposition leader's wife, and party deputy leaders Anglu Farrugia and Toni Abela.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague was among those who sent his condolences this morning.

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