Updated: PN will not be destroyed - Foreign Minister

Nothing had destroyed the Nationalist Party in the past and nothing would destroy it now, Foreign Affairs Minister Tonio Borg said this evening. Closing the first session of the Nationalist Party's general council, Dr Borg said that challenges, some of them internal, kept coming but the PN knew what it meant to suffer for its principles and would not lose heart. He referred to a statement by Labour leader Joseph Muscat earlier this week accusing the Nationalist Party of burying its European and democratic credentials. "There were those who, in Malta, reviled the principles of democracy, who did not accept the people's verdict - not once but twice. "Only Labour governed against the will of the majority in 1981 and it was the PL's current leader who had celebrated the partnership's victory, in spite of a different result in the referendum," Dr Borg said. He said that the people contesting the current leader for the PL's leadership had described his behaviour as a grave insult, irregular and against all ethics. Dr Borg spoke about the situation in Europe saying the past four years were tough with millions of jobs being lost because of the financial and economic...