The Opposition would be demanding that the accounts of the Local Enforcement System Agency (LESA) be tabled in the House of Representatives, said MP Robert Cutajar.

Mr Cutajar referred to the LESA reform in negative terms, arguing that local councils had lost the sway that they had once had over where local wardens - now known as community officers - were deployed. The MP also questioned whether the new post of LESA deputy CEO was a new opportunity for someone close to the government to continue “to eat at the trough”.

Mr Cutajar was speaking in the context of amendments to the Local Councils Act, in favour of which the Opposition would be voting. He expressed the Opposition’s dissatisfaction with the fact that not all of its proposals had been taken on board, with some ignored and others put off for possible future consideration.

The Opposition had made 80 proposals concerning local councils, 25 years after their introduction in 1994 by a Nationalist government.

He added that the Opposition would be holding the Government to its €700 million electoral promise to resurface 700 roads over the next seven years, but that it would not accept the undertaking of works without prior consultation with local councils, highlighting that Infrastructure Malta had taken over the responsibilities formerly associated with the latter.

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