The Nationalist Party declared this evening that Parliament will meet only when all government MPs are in Malta.
The party was reacting to a press conference by Labour leader Joseph Muscat, who said parliament was being held hostage to the needs of the PN.
Dr Muscat said this afternoon that the fact that Parliament was not meeting today and tomorrow underscored the crisis the government was suffering.
Speaking outside the Chamber of parliament in Valletta, Dr Muscat observed that the House will not meet until Wednesday because the prime minister is attending the EU summit.
This showed, he said, how the government had lost its majority in parliament. In the past, sittings were still held when the prime minister was abroad.
The government, Dr Muscat said, was being held hostage by a clique, and parliament was being held hostage by the government.
Referring to the prime minister's decision to call a PN leadership contest in which he will be a candidate, Dr Muscat insisted that what the prime minister needed was a majority in parliament, not within the PN.
He said urgent business was before parliament, and the House and the...
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