The PN and the PL have engaged in a tit-for-tat over activities which the local councils in Cottonera will organise to mark Freedom Day on March 31.

Ian Castaldi Paris, president of the PN College of Councillors, speaking at a press conference this morning, accused the councils of using public funds for party activities, adding that the PL was seeing the councils as as extension of its clubs.

He insisted that the councils should not organise activities which could cause division.

The Labour Party in a statement in reply said the 30th anniversary of Freedom Day deserved to be celebrated appropriately. The PL said it had nothing to be ashamed of when it encouraged the councils in Cottonera to celebrate this national feast, more so when the government was not giving this anniversary the importance it deserved. Freedom Day was as important as the other national holidays, the party said.

It denied having asked the councils to use public funds for activities which the PL itself would hold on March 30/31.

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