Delimara power station.Delimara power station.

The Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, yesterday told Times of Malta that the deal with the Chinese was not any form of privatisation but a strat­egic partnership.

Asked whether selling the BWSC power plant to the Chinese did not fall into the definition of privatisation, the Prime Minister insisted it did not and said the government would still have full control over Enemalta.

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