People accused of corruption have found in Labour leader Joseph Muscat an agony aunt, the Nationalist Party said in a statement.

The PN said it was shocking that Dr Muscat found it normal to associate himself and his party’s media with a former mayor who declared he had taken a bribe, for cheap political gain.

Dr Muscat was proving to be weak on corruption when faced with the real thing. Dr Muscat, the party said, had declared he was comfortable that the former Sliema mayor was using his party’s media as his mouthpiece.

The Labour leader, the PN said, had also kept mum when criminal allegations against the Zebbug Labour deputy mayor surfaced in the media and when a Labour councillor in Attard was charged with damaging the church parvis to accommodate the Labour Party club in the vicinity.

In both cases it took Joseph Muscat’s Labour ages to sack both councillors.

He also felt it unnecessary to explain to the people of Fgura.

The PN said that Dr Muscat’s sole ambition was to become Prime Minister. However, he lacked substance and had no moral bearing where corruption was concerned.