Updated - Government postpones legal notice establishing fixed autumn hunting season - FKNK

The government had been on the verge of issuing a legal notice establishing a fixed autumn hunting season but this was then postponed FKNK president Joe Perici Calascione told a news conference this afternoon that the fixed autumn season as well as a review of the legislation to close certain loopholes and ambiguities were two of the points agreed with the Labour Party. Although discussions had been going with the government, he said, the Nationalist Party had always refused to meet hunters.   Mr Perici Calascione expressed anger at a Nationalist Party advert in newspapers today taking a dig at the PL’s agreement with hunters. He said that the PN had adopted a different attitude when it was in opposition in 1998. An agreement had then been signed between hunters and Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, who was then secretary general of the PN. The PN had then pledged that hunters would not lose any of their rights. Asked what hunters meant with “the correct application of the derogation” in their agreement with the PL, Mr Perici Calascione said the government had applied the derogation 12 times, each time incorrectly. The reasons vary from purely technical reasons to other issues in...