PN leadership contender Mario de Marco has said he is “radically different” from his father, the late President Guido de Marco, who served as party deputy leader for many years.

“If there are councillors who are thinking of voting for me because of what my father represented, I don’t wish to disappoint them. I am different from him,” he told reporters at a question and answer session at The Times’ newsroom.

"My father was unique and they probably threw the mould away.

“I resemble my mother, not my father . . . My father was an extrovert. I am not. He had a tendency of taking on things and then seeing how to handle them, whereas I like to weigh out the options and take in the full scenario before deciding,” he told reporters at a question and answer session at The Times’ newsroom.

Asked why he not contest the post of deputy leader before the election campaign, Dr de Marco said he had reservations about having a deputy leadership race practically in the middle of an electoral campaign .

Full story in The Times.