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2 maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014 News Labour, PN deputy leaders take common stand on 'far right' THE Nationalist Party's deputy leader for party affairs Beppe Fenech Adami and his Labour counterpart Toni Abela expressed concern over the rising support the far right extremists evidenced dur- ing last Saturday's election. The two deputy leaders were de- bating the election outcome on Re- porter on TVM on Monday, hosted by Saviour Balzan. Imperium Europa, headed by ex- tremist Norman Lowell, garnered 6,761 first preference votes. Both Labour and PN agreed that the support Lowell enjoyed was wor- rying, due to the party's racist and xenophobic attitude. "The vote is outrageous, consid- ering that Lowell claims irregu- lar migrants should be shot and persons with disability should be killed," Fenech Adami said. He went on to add that the cat- egory of people who voted for Lowell were most probably self- employed workers such as plaster- ers and painters who feared losing their job to foreigners. "We should find ways of assuring them that their jobs are not threat- ened because of foreigners," Fenech Adami insisted. Abela agreed that this could be an opportunity for both forces to come together and tackle the issue on a common front. Tackling the PN's leadership is- sue following the Opposition's dismal result, Fenech Adami said one should await the final outcome of the result before commenting any further of the issue. The PN's target was to elect three seats, al- though the third seat is as yet not confirmed. On the much talked about mock Panini album – which featured some 200 Labour appoint- ees – Fenech Adami admitted it could have been presented in a dif- ferent way. On his part, Abela defended the government's meritocratic track record, insisting that attacks lev- eled against this pledge were "ex- aggerated". Beppe Fenech Adami and Toni Abela shared the same opinion on Norman Lowell Beppe Fenech Adami admitted the Panini sticker album could have been presented in a different way