Environmental lobby group Front Ħarsien ODZ has welcomed the declaration made by Nationalist leader Simon Busuttil that he is not bound by agreements signed by his party with the Armier boathouse lobby and has called on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to do the same.

The NGO said Dr Muscat should renege on the Labour Party’s pre-electoral agreement with the Armier boathouse lobby represented by Armier Developments Limited.

It said the pre-electoral agreements signed by the Nationalist Party in 2003 and 2008 and by the Labour Party in 2002, 2007 and 2013 “represented a dark chapter in Malta’s political history” which saw the two major parties entering into agreements with squatters occupying a large tract of public land.

“What the country needs is a national consensus supported by the PL, the PN, AD and civil society to ensure that all those who occupied public land illegally are served with a notice of eviction and given a reasonable timeframe to vacate the land,” it said.

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