A broadcaster on the national station’s breakfast show, Joe Mifsud, yesterday filed a complaint against a man who suggested on Facebook that he may have been bribed by the Nationalist Party.

Dr Mifsud, who is also a lawyer and former international secretary of the Labour Party, filed the complaint against Manuel Bonanno for the comment he left on Dr Mifsud’s wall asking him if he was still a member of the Labour Party.

In the post, Mr Bonanno said that in the past Dr Mifsud had praised the Labour Party and would criticise the Nationalist Party.

He then asked him if he had been bribed by the PN and was still part of Labour.

In the complaint, Dr Mifsud said he took such allegations very seriously and said that it was defamatory.

Within hours of the complaint being filed, Mr Bonanno made an apology on Dr Mifsud’s wall saying that he was very sorry for what he had written.

He added that he was a just a “simple, poor man, who looked after his mother and did not have anywhere decent to live”.

In response, Dr Mifsud later said that he would take the apology into consideration and noted how it had been made after Mr Bonanno was questioned by the police.