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MATTHEW VELLA A verification exercise is cur- rently ongoing at the Nationalist Party, to ascertain how many vot- ers signed a proxy for their vote to be collected by a third party. The exercise comes in the wake of a confidential report, published by this newspaper, showing the PN's electoral commission having been alerted to a proxy that was used to collect a voting document for a voter who had not requested his vote to be collected by anyone. The PN's assistant secretary- general, Jean Pierre Debono, was chided by the same commission, for handling the proxies, which he says were passed on to him by sectional committee members alleg- edly acting for voters. WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post PAGE 9 • Editorial WEDNESDAY • 27 SEPTEMBER 2017 • ISSUE 556 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY DENISE GRECH NATIONALIST Party leader Adrian Delia was welcomed by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat at the Labour Party headquarters in Hamrun in the first meeting between the two. Delia said he hoped he could form a relationship with Muscat that would see the two have a healthy and productive relationship, to the benefit of the Maltese. Both the Prime Minister and soon-to-be Opposition leader – the two of them old Aloysians – were all smiles as they met for the first time, and joked about old school rivalries. "We hope that our meeting will create under- standing of what we're both willing to work on," said Muscat. Delia was flanked by MP Clyde Puli and PN Whip Da- vid Agius. Asked by MaltaToday for his reaction to Delia stating he was not afraid of Muscat, the latter jokingly said that "he didn't seem to be afraid" when they met. Delia inter- jected, insisting that politics should "never be built on fear, but hope". The meeting came after the Prime Minister said he would be inviting Delia for a meeting to discuss how the two could work together over the course of the legis- lature. PAGE 5 5 8 Verification underway into PN proxy votes Pacific Ocean hunt nets Japan 177 whales BOSOM BUDDIES