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PN launches constitutional case over PBS 'Labour propaganda'

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Opposition deputy leader David Agius said up to half of PBS news bulletins were being taken up with Labour messaging.

The Nationalist Party has gone to the constitutional court over what it described as political bias and propaganda on the state broadcaster PBS.   Addressing a press conference on Saturday, PN deputy leader David Agius said the party was taking legal action against the Broadcasting Authority, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Minister Carmelo Abela, who is responsible for state broadcasting, and the office of the state advocate.  Agius said the PN had decided to take its battle to court after suffering months of political imbalance, particularly in news coverage on PBS.   The state broadcaster, he said, had become completely infiltrated by Labour propaganda and no longer offered balanced views and information on sensitive topics of national importance.   The PN filed its court application in the first hall of the civil court in its constitutional function on Friday.  The application was signed by PN general secretary and lawyer Michael Piccinino and lawyers Paul Borg Olivier and Francis Zammit Dimech, both of whom previously served as PN general secretaries.   Agius said PBS has been completely taken over by Castille.  “People are being bombarded with propaganda from the...


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