The Speaker of the House, Anglu Farrugia, said today that he considered as closed an issue he raised last week about an editorial in The Sunday Times of Malta.

In a declaration in the House this evening, Dr Farrugia recalled how last week he complained that the newspaper had said that:  “Joseph Muscat and Labour-appointed Speaker (Anġlu Farrugia) went out of their way to ensure he (Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco) would not be impeached before he reaches retirement age in the summer”.

According to him, the editorial had implied he was in cahoots with Dr Muscat to ensure that Mr Justice Farrugia Sacco was not impeached before the judge’s due retirement in summer.

However Dr Farrugia noted that the newspaper said yesterday that: "While The Sunday Times of Malta asserts its right to imply or even state as a matter of opinion that the Prime Minister and the Speaker were in cahoots on the matter, in this case neither did the editorial contain such comment, nor did it want to imply it."

In view of this Dr Farrugia said he considered the case closed.