Nationalist MP Claudio Grech this afternoon reacted to a call by the Labour Party for the PN to shoulder political responsibility for a case he was involved in 20 years ago.

The PL said the Opposition leader did not say anything about how Mr Grech had falsified an ID card, a crime he had been found guilty of in court.

Mr Grech, it said, had held several positions in important government agencies including MITA.

Dr Busuttil, the PL said, should be consistent and call on this MP to shoulder political responsibility.

The PN leader, it said, could not abstain from this decision as he did on other matters including the vote on civil unions and his position on hunting.

In his reaction, Mr Grech said Dr Muscat and the Labour Party were trying to put him in a bad light to divert public attention from a situation that uncovered how, the PL wrongly preferred the bad over what was right.

The Prime Minister was bringing politics down to their lowest level for political gain, he said adding that the case the PL referred to dated back nearly 20 years, was a minor one, and did not have any consequence on him personally and much less on third parties.

It was so clear that there had not been any bad intention that he was conditionally discharged, he said adding that he humbly respected the court’s decision, learnt from it and moved forward.

The case, he said, in no way justified Dr Muscat’s position to place Cyrus Engerer on a pedestal to turn the truth over its head.

This was the clear difference in standards between the PL and the PN.

Mr Grech said he left it up to the public to judge his behaviour and political work.