Newly elected MP Mark Anthony Sammut expressed his thoughts saying that this is not the right time for the PN to change leader and be fragmented.
Sammut said that the party leader, Bernard Grech, should be allowed to continue despite the electoral defeat.
In the year-and-a-half he has been leader, Grech did important changes and this included the regeneration of the parliamentary group, said Sammut.
Sammut, a new face elected to parliament under the PN ticket, was speaking during a debate on TVM News Plus’ Xtra. Sammut went on to say that despite the result, the PN should not throw away all that has been achieved or the vision outlined in the electoral programme.
‘This is not a moment for the party to fragment’ said Sammut. ‘The PN has to be humble enough to see how it can do better and understand better the electorate. There was abuse by the government during the electoral campaign but we cannot justify the result through this… reforms and changes within the PN have to happen but not necessarily in the leadership.’
Referring to the ‘abuse’, Sammut said that apart from releasing cheques during the campaign, he claimed that he knew of people who were informed on Election Day by union representatives that they had negotiated a good pay packet.
‘This is abuse but the PN has to focus on what it can do best and the first priority must be to focus on its internal structures’ he said.
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