The Nationalist Party this afternoon accused the Labour leader of wanting to manipulate facts to get out of the hole he had found himself in.
The Labour leader, the PN said, wanted to get involved in the operations of the police force, in the way investigations and inquiries are carried out, and also wanted to say who were the judges he did not trust while imposing Labour representatives to decide on his own allegations.
The PN said Dr Muscat attacked an independent judge and said he wanted his representatives on teh baord of inquiry. This was blatant political interference.
Dr Muscat also wanted to clear himself by defending those who hid the truth and facts from him.
Such political interference weakened the country's democracy which Nationalist government had strengthened.
Earlier today, Dr Muscat that the decision by the Minister of Home Affairs to appoint Judge Albert Manche' to lead the inquiry into the police investigation of Cyrus Engerer was 'insensitive' and it had no confidence in the Judge.
Michael Falzon, spokesman for home affairs, and Jose' Herrera, spokesman for justice, said the government knew that the Opposition had no confidence in the judge.
This judge, they said, had presided over the Commission Against Corruption, which in 11 years had not found blame by the government in any case.
It would have been far better, in the interests of transparency and public confidence, had the Leader of the Opposition been consulted before such an appointment was made, the spokesmen said.
They also insisted that two inquiries should actually be held. The first should look into how the head of the prime minister's secretariat, Edgar Galea Curmi "tried to interfere in police investigations" in what was an unacceptable act in a democratic country.
The second inquiry should focus on how a 'confidential' court document - the charge sheet against Mr Engerer - had found itself in the media even before Mr Engerer himself was informed.
The Labour spokesmen said they did not wish to go into the merits of the case, but they were concerned over 'the hidden hand' which, they said, tried to act against an individual.