Updated - Zammit Dimech hands in nomination, outlines his aims

Former Minister Francis Zammit Dimech, 58, has presented his nomination for the PN leadership election - the second candidate to do so after Simon Busuttil. He said his slogan was niġġeddu, nissaħħu, nirbħu, and his immediate focus was on revamping the Nationalist Party. Dr Zammit Dimnech handed his nomination to party General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier and said he was doing so out of a sense of duty to the country and the party. He said the party needed new ideas and new structures. It also needed new people while also benefiting from the experience of those already within it. The PN, he said, had to be a sound and positive Opposition. It needed to go back to its grass roots and one of his immediate initiatives, should he be elected, would be an intensive membership recruitment campaign. The party, he said, needed to reach out not only to those who had left it, but also to those who never considered voting for it. The party, he said, should also go back to the concept of having a congress for all its members, instead of the council for its delegates. The party had to perform an 'x-ray' of society in order to produce policies which were most relevant for the country. Questioned...