Labour Party urged to join 'national consensus' against illegal boathouses

Front Ħarsien has called on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to renege on his party’s pre-electoral agreement with the Armier boathouse lobby and therefore join the Opposition leader's pledge. In a statement, the NGO welcomed the declaration made by Simon Busuttil that he is not bound by agreements signed by his party with the Armier boathouse lobby in the past. “The pre-electoral agreements signed by the Nationalist Party in 2003 and 2008 and by the Labour Party in 2002, 2007 and 2013 represented a dark chapter in Malta’s political history which saw the two major parties entering in to agreements with squatters occupying a large tract of public land, thus becoming accomplices in theft.” The Front expressed satisfaction that the PN is no longer bound by 2003 and 2008 agreements which committed government to hand over 230 tumoli of public land in Armier to Armier Developments Limited on 65-year lease against an annual €350,000 payment. The Front also recognised that Alternattiva Demokratika has consistently opposed the occupation of public land at Armier and has never signed any agreement with the lobby. “It is a shame that the PL is still bound by an agreement signed before the...