Divorce Movement leader Deborah Schembri explained today that three messages are being given in her movement’s billboards ahead of this month’s referendum.

The first, she said, was that it was discriminatory that the wealthy could get divorce abroad while people in Malta could not.

The second underlined that divorce gave battered and abused wives (and husbands) a way out to start afresh in a new marriage.

In the third billboard message, the Divorce Movement is saying 'in blunt Maltese language' that rather than illegitimate children from cohabiting couples, divorce opens the way for new marriages that would also benefit the children as their parents would have a new, stable relationship.

The press conference was also addressed by, among others, former Nationalist minister and information secretary Michael Falzon.

ANTI DIVORCE MOVEMENT CONDEMNS 'INSENSITIVE' LANGUAGE

Meanwhile, the anti-divorce movement  Zwieg bla divorzju said the Divorce Movement was insensitive when in its poster on children it described some children as  “bgħula”. (The billboard says Poġġuti bilfors u wliedna bgħula. Hekk sew?)

The anti-divorce movement said this had happened after the Divorce Movement itself had said that children should not be used in the campaign.

The anti divorce movement also referred to the billboard on battered wives and said it could not understand how the Divorce Movement presented itself as the defender of battered wives and children, and then used them to impose a no-fault divorce.

It said that the Divorce Movement knew well enough that the law already did not refer to legitimate and illegitimate children.