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WEDNESDAY • 22 JULY 2020 • ISSUE 697 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
PN insurgency seeks general council
showdown to force Adrian Delia out
KURT SANSONE & PAUL COCKS
DISSENTING Nationalists will try
and force a vote of no confidence in
Adrian Delia at the general council
when the party executive meets to-
morrow.
The move is part of a wider plan to
install Therese Comodini Cachia as
interim Opposition leader and kick-
start a leadership race, sources close
to the dissenters told MaltaToday.
The strategy is to oust Delia and
have a new leader installed by Sep-
tember, in time for the party's Inde-
pendence Day celebrations.
The dissenters include a majority
of PN MPs and are fronted by Co-
modini Cachia.
The 89-member PN executive will
meet tomorrow at 7pm on Delia's
request but the agenda is
likely to be usurped by
the dissenting group.
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KARL AZZOPARDI & MATTHEW VELLA
MALTA will not be subjected to
any new European taxes under EU
budget and coronavirus recovery
funds package which has just been
negotiated, Robert Abela said.
The Prime Minister was addressing
a press conference at Castille yester-
day evening, a few hours after Malta
received its largest-ever EU funds al-
location, €2.25 billion, for the financial
period of 2021-2027.
The sum includes €1.923 billion from
the EU's budget – the multiannual fi-
nancial framework – as well as €327
million from the newly established
recovery package known as Next Gen-
eration EU. This amount excludes the
loan element in the same package.
Asked by MaltaToday whether any
taxes on Europe's financial services
market would be introduced to gener-
ate the funds, Abela said
this was not the case.
No new taxes under EU budget
and COVID recovery funds - PM
Robert Abela
Adrian Delia
