The Opposition has accused the Labour government of pumping around €30,000 in adverts for one single issue of KullĦadd, a PL party newspaper, to commemorate the second year of the Robert Abela administration.
Nationalist MP Claudette Buttiġieġ said that government paid the Labour Party around €30,000 in adverts on the newspaper on Sunday 16th January. This refers to a 32-page supplement with adverts from a number of ministries.
Buttiġieġ said that each advert cost around €950 each, going on to criticise h government for spending taxpayer’s money on political propaganda. President of the Nationalist Party’s General Council Mark Anthony Sammut said statistics publishes by the National Statistics Office (NSO) depict a reality of an exponential rise in Malta’s cost-of-living.
Referring to Carmen Ciantar’s €163,000 contract and that of One TV presenter Karl Stagno Navarra, he said that ‘inflation is a reality and it is creating difficulties for those at risk of poverty. The prices of essential items like food are going up every day. But government goes on a reckless spending spree, dishing out money to people close to the Labour Party.’
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