Franco Debono wanted to become Prime Minister and make Beppe Fenech Adami his Justice Minister, the latter said this morning.
Nationalist MP Beppe Fenech Adami this morning accused Franco Debono of having been mounting pressure on the Prime Minister for a long time to appoint him minister instead of Carm Mifsud Bonnici.
Speaking on Radio Malta's programme Ghandi x'Nghid, Dr Fenech Adami, who is parliamentary assistant in the Justice Ministry, said that Dr Debono was mounting pressure even when the minister was in hospital. There was even an incident when Super One had ran a story that he (Dr Fenech Adami) was to become Justice Minister. He used that moment to increase his lobbying for the minister's removal.
The Nationalist MP said that there was even a time last year, at around when the budget votes were being debated, that Dr Debono approached him personally telling him that if he supported him in his moves and he became Prime Minister he would propose him for Justice Minister.
Dr Fenech Adami said that when he told Dr Debono that this was not the way to do things, Dr Debono told him to forget everything.
Dr Fenech Adami said that even when there was the issue of public transport, Dr Debono had told him his approach against Minister Austin Gatt was to get back at him for an incident 10 years ago when, as a lawyer, he represented a family who was requesting compensation which Dr Gatt had believed was too high.
Dr Fenech Adami said that although Dr Debono had a lot of praise for his father Eddie, he could not understand how he had never recognised his capabilities by placing him on government boards.
He said that Dr Debono expected the Nationalist Party to issue a public statement thanking him for ridding the party of (former minister) Louis Galea.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120121/local/it-is-an-absolute-and-utter-lie-that-i-wanted-to-become-prime-minister-franco-debono.403246