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PAGE 9 • Editorial
WEDNESDAY • 6 SEPTEMBER 2017 • ISSUE 553 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
Ray Bugeja
Most Nationalist MPs
unwilling to disclose
leader preference
Marsa raids point to
racial profiling
PAUL COCKS
A FORMER Nationalist Party lead-
ership contender and vocal political
commentator has said that if Adrian
Delia were to be elected PN leader on
16 September, he would leave the party
immediately.
Entrepreneur Ray Bugeja took to Fa-
cebook to announce that he would
leave the PN if party members choose
lawyer Adrian Delia over Chris Said in
the upcoming final round of the lead-
ership election.
"I have always supported the PN lead-
er," he wrote on Facebook. "This time, I
shall do so only if Chris Said is elected.
If not, I shall simply, and sadly, move
away."
Delia and Said beat two other con-
tenders – Alex Perici Calascione and
Frank Portelli – in a first round of vot-
ing which was open to PN councillors.
Delia obtained 616 votes, with Said
securing nearly 200 fewer, out of the
1,365 eligible votes.
For the first time ever, 22,500 paid-up
party members will be voting in the fi-
nal decisive round.
Former PN leadership contender
says these are dangerous times:
'I WILL
LEAVE PN
IF DELIA
WINS'
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