The Nationalist Party has again asked Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to contest the next election on its behalf.

He has been asked to contest on the 10th district.

Dr Pullicino Orlando wrote on his Facebook wall:

"I have been asked to contest the 10th electoral district in the forthcoming general elections by a high ranking member of the PN administration."

Contacted by timesofmalta.com this morning, Dr Pullicino Orlando, who in the last election was elected from the seventh and 11th districts, said that he has still not decided whether or not to contest the next election but if he does he will definitely do so on behalf of the Nationalist Party.

"I posted the message to get the people's reaction and so far it has been positive. People have already offered to help. If it is up to me, I would like to retain the seventh district, which is my district but I would consider contesting the 10th as my second district," he said.

Asked who it was that had asked him to take on the 10th district, Dr Pullicino Orlando said he preferred not to say as the conversation was private.

Considered by many as a controversial figure within the party, Dr Pullicino Orlando has successfully moved the private member's bill for the introduction of divorce in Malta, a bill expected to get Parliament's final approval on Monday.

The Nationalist Party took a position against divorce but allowed its MPs to vote according to conscience.

Dr Pullicino Orlando was involved in another controversial issue before the last election, that of the Mistra disco saga.

Former Labour leader Alfred Sant had broke the story and Dr Pullicino Orlando had arrived at a press conference on PBS as a journalist to question Dr Sant.

The Nationalist MP obtained his best results ever in the election that followed.