PL accuses Busuttil of hiding the truth on ministerial pay raise and refunds

The Labour Party this afternoon accused PN leader Simon Busuttil of not having told the truth during the electoral campaign when he knew that the then ministers and parliamentary secretaries had not fully refunded the pay raises they had received. In a statement, the PL said that during the campaign, Dr Busuttil sought to hide the facts about the 'scandalous raise' the Nationalist ministers had been given. Despite repeated questions, he did not publish information on what had been refunded. Now it had been revealed that the ministers and parliamentary secretaries received a total raise of €1.6m and only refunded €300,000, meaning they pocketed a raise of €1.3 million.  This meant that the claim during the campaign that the raise had been refunded was a lie and Dr Busuttil knew this, the PL said. It showed how he had learnt nothing from the way how the raise was given behind the people's back, while power and water tariffs were being raised for the people.