TV host and singer Claudette Buttigieg (née Pace) is seeking legal advice after she was forced to stop being a presenter on TVM after declaring she would be a Nationalist Party candidate.
Public Broadcasting Services said on Tuesday that the producers of her programme Sellili would have to find a replacement to start on October 1 in light of her announcement as an election candidate.
Reacting, Ms Buttigieg said she “fully understood” the way PBS had to operate in the context of “short-sighted and restrictive interpretations of broadcasting balance” brought into play because of how the Labour Party conducted itself in this area.
However, she was disappointed that her 17-year career as a broadcasting professional was “prejudiced” in this way when other individuals had in the past been allowed to take part in programmes without these sorts of limitations.