Nationalist MP Franco Debono dismisses suggestions he is destabilising the government and insists he is merely echoing the electorate's concerns before it is too late.

"It's better to have a backbencher voice concerns today, so that a situation is remedied before the electorate delivers its judgment," he tells The Sunday Times in an interview today.

In a conciliatory tone, just days after forcing a vote of confidence in the government, Dr Debono says that the way he speaks is the natural political language which will be used in 10 to 15 years time.

He maintains that the issues he has raised in Parliament – such as the right to a lawyer during interrogation and the need for the Transport Minister to assume political responsibility for the new bus service – were valid.

The backbencher pledges he will vote with the government on the crucial Budget vote and that the reservations he raised on public transport, which saw him abstain in a vote of confidence in the Transport Minister, were now over.

He rejects claims that he put pressure on the Prime Minister to get a post or that he was clamouring for the Justice Minister's job, just days after he presented a private member's motion on justice and the police.

He also comments on the PN's need to evolve and fields questions of Manuel Delia's bid to be a PN candidate on his same district.

Watch excerpts of the interview with Herman Grech by clicking the link above. Read the entire interview in today's edition of The Sunday Times.