The Nationalist Party has always been consistent about the controversial divorce issue, general secretary Paul Borg Olivier tells The Sunday Times in an interview today.

Interviewed just hours before the Prime Minister recommended a May 28 referendum on divorce, Dr Borg Olivier maintains the PN did not make any U-turns on divorce.

Despite his party taking an anti-divorce stand, he would not be drawn into saying whether the PN will campaign against the introduction of divorce legislation. While insisting that the PN is a secular party dictated by its own values, he disagrees with claims that the party risks losing its faction of liberal supporters by adopting an anti-divorce stand.

In an interview with Herman Grech, the PN general secretary claims the state of the family in Malta was not deteriorating and the social texture on the island was different to other Catholic countries.

Dr Borg Olivier hints that the Labour Party is in favour of a referendum because the minority against divorce in the PL is bigger than the minority in favour of divorce in the PN.

He also speaks of the damage inflicted to the party about the honoraria issue and says it would be good if the media exposes the country’s economic achievements the way it was exposing the divorce issue.

Watch excerpts of the interview by clicking the link above. Read the entire interview in today’s edition of The Sunday Times.