Opposition leader Adrian Delia has dropped a libel action against media house LovinMalta after the claims were dropped.

Lovin Malta had published an article saying that Dr Delia was going around with €500 notes "that might be coming from donations made to the party", a claim he denied.

"Lovin Malta has since tried to verify the claim made an unnamed PN MP. However, we have been unable to do so. In fact, there seems to be no evidence that Dr Delia is going around with €500 notes, nor that these might be coming from party donations," the media house said.

The PN said in a statement that it was fully in favour of freedom of the press but that the media should not allow itself to be used by third parties for "character assassination".

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