The government is using illegal billboards in information campaigns funded by taxpayers’ money, Times of Malta can confirm.

Some of them, including the one in Msida circus, are covered by Mepa enforcement notices and had been used by the Labour Party in the electoral campaign.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister did not deny the government was using illegal billboards but when asked to state why, he said: “The legal regime regulating educative, cultural, political or social adverts is different from that applicable to commercial adverts.”

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