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WEDNESDAY • 2 NOVEMBER 2022 • ISSUE 817 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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Abela gloats over
Labour budget, tears
into PN finance costings
KARL AZZOPARDI
PRIME Minister Robert
Abela had a relatively sim-
ple playbook for Tuesday
evening's Budget speech,
replying to Opposition
Bernard Grech's budget re-
ply on Monday: propping
up his 'no-pain' budget
while tearing into a poor-
ly-prepared PN pre-budget
document whose spelling
errors and idiomatic inac-
curacies attracted press at-
tention.
MATTHEW AGIUS
THREE driving examiners have told
a court that they had been instructed
by their superiors to be extra lenient
towards certain politically connected
candidates.
Magistrate Rachel Montebello pre-
sided as the compilation of evidence
against
Transport Malta director for the
Land Transport Directorate Clint
Mansueto, former Żebbuġ Labour
councillor Philip Edrick Zammit
and Raul Antonio Pace continued on
Tuesday morning.
The men are pleading not guilty to
charges relating to corruption and
bribery in relation to driving tests.
Before hearing their testimony, the
prosecution confirmed that there
were no plans to prosecute the wit-
nesses in connection with this inves-
tigation.
The court turned down a request to
order a ban on the publication of the
men's names, made by their lawyer.
'No-pain budget' gives Robert
Abela easy script to deliver second
run-down of Budget 2023 and
opportunity to tear into Opposition's
poor pre-budget document
'We were
told to close
an eye'
Driving test corruption
