Caruana Galizia denies JPO's claims

Blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia this evening denied claims made in parliament by Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando that she told him - after the general election in 2008 - that Richard Cachia Caruana worked for his resignation from parliament. "Had Pullicino Orlando not protected himself by means of parliamentary privilege when saying this, I would have been able to open civil and criminal suits against him for slander," Mrs Cachia Caruana said. She added that Dr Pullicino Olando was 'in bad faith' when he said that he told the law courts, under oath, of this assertion. "He failed to mention that I took the witness stand immediately after he did, to negate all that he had said, also under oath, adding that the level of stress which he was under at the time, and which I remembered well, would have affected both his judgement and his memory. I, who was not affected by the potential loss of income from a Mistra Bay development project, had and still have total recall of what I said and did not say to him." In a statement, Mrs Caruana Galizia said it was true that there were people working for Pullicino Orlando's resignation, "but I had no reason to believe that Richard Cachia...