The government intends to shortly announce measures to address the payment of compensation to owners of expropriated property, Parliamentary Secretary Jason Azzopardi has said.

The payments run into millions of euro and have accumulated for over 40 years.

In an interview with Kurt Sansone, Dr Azzopardi also spoke on new rights being given under amendments to the expropriation law, the saga on the termination of the lease of the property used by the PL in Siggiewi, and the controversy over Finance Minister Tonio Fenech's private trip abroad with leading entrepreneurs.

He also insisted that no one in the PN had asked him to stand in the fifth district, the district from which MP Franco Debono is elected. A newspaper last week said Dr Azzopardi may stand on that district in order to oust Dr Debono.

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