Ċensu Tabone’s family “greatly appreciated” the Prime Minister’s public apology for the social boycott imposed on the former president by the Labour Party back in 1989.

During the unveiling of a monument of Dr Tabone at Balluta Square, St Julian’s, on Wednesday, Joseph Muscat apologised for the social boycott that had been imposed on Dr Tabone’s presidency by then Opposition leader Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici.

“Dr Muscat deviated from his script to publicly apologise for the boycott,” Dr Tabone’s son, Francis, told Times of Malta.

“We very much appreciated it. One could argue it has been a long time coming but, by the end of his presidency in 1994, [then Opposition leader] Alfred Sant had proposed amending the Constitution to enable my father to continue as president for a second term. That, in itself, was a form of apology.”

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