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maltatoday, MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017 News 9 surprised' by alleged kickbacks in Enemalta sale Malta in its editorial yesterday had urged people to vote for the 'Forza Nazzjonali' coali- tion of the PN and the Partit Demokratiku. "Such editorials urging peo- ple to vote for a specific po- litical party are extremely rate, but we are indeed living in an extraordinary situation," he said. He also noted The Times' in- terview with Philip Rizzo, the former CEO of the Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools, who had warned Joseph Muscat of alleged corruption by the can- vasser of education minister Evarist Bartolo. In the inter- view, Rizzo – a 'switcher' who voted for Labour in 2013 – confirmed that he will be vot- ing for the PN next week. "When Rizzo warned Mus- cat of the dirt at the education ministry, Muscat's response was to ask him whether he would like another job," Busut- til said. "Muscat could see the corruption, but he chose to ig- nore it." Addressing a political activity in Mellieha, Simon Busuttil said that the political situation is "suffocating" and that the public cannot wait to vote out the government on Saturday morning lawyer Joe Giglio addresses 'Muscat has lost the plot' tions stop functioning, be- cause they have been hijacked by a clique in power," he said. Giglio also dismissed Mus- cat's claims that three ongo- ing magisterial inquiries – one into reports that the PM's wife owns Egrant and two into alleged kickbacks by the prime minister's chief of staff Keith Schembri – does not mean that he and Schembri are under investigation. "Muscat is trying to laugh in my face. You don't need to be a genius to realise that a mag- isterial inquiry means that, yes, you are under investiga- tion," he said. "For example, why do magistrates launch in- quiries into traffic accidents? To investigate obviously…" The PN in 2014 entrusted Joe Giglio with heading a policy forum to draft the PN's electoral policies on justice and home affairs, and in 2015 had attempted to co-opt him into Parliament. Giglio had previously served as the law yer of Pilatus Bank in a court case instigated against it by its former em- ployee turned whistleblower in the Egrant case, over claims that the bank didn't pay her for two and a half months of work. Joe Giglio who had previously served as the lawyer for Pilatus Bank spoke at the Mellieha PN activity THIS IS A PAID ADVERT

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