Berta Sullivan in her article Progressively Regressing (May 4) revealed some very worrying information about Alex Sceberras Trigona, former Labour Minister for Foreign Affairs and at present Labour’s international secretary.

By his own admission Dr Sceberras Trigona “boasted of playing an active role in the “no” campaign against the UK’s entry in the Common Market confessing that when Britain took its vote on the Common Market he was involved in a little vote rigging of his own because as a student he had moved and had three different addresses, he had three voting documents and used them all to vote on the ‘no’ side.” (Malta Today, June 17, 2001)

I have never heard this information before I read Ms Sullivan’s article, so I would give Joseph Muscat the benefit of the doubt that when he recalled Dr Sceberras Trigona to the party which led to his appointment as international secretary he was not aware of this serious infringement of UK electoral law. The offence is so serious that on indictment the maximum penalty (today) is imprisonment for one year or a fine of £5,000 or both.

I would have expected Dr Muscat to have taken action by now considering his protestations about transparency and political correctness. How can he allow the Labour Party to be represented abroad by a self-confessed electoral fraudster? What’s more, Dr Sceberras Trigona’s action was a great affront to the host country where he was studying.

Here’s the challenge: Dr Muscat either demands Dr Sceberras Trigona’s resignation or people will be entitled to reach their own conclusions about Labour’s way of doing things if they are trusted to govern this country.