The land swap deal the government is proposing with Sadeen Group’s American University of Malta and Smart City in Kalkara will be debated in parliament’s plenary after the National Audit Office Accounts Committee failed to reach unanimity about it on Thursday. The Opposition’s representatives on the committee, Darren Carabott and Rebakah Cilia, voted against two resolutions for land in Senglea and Marsascala earmarked for the AUM to return to the government, with the university instead being given land at SmartCity to develop a campus. The resolutions were tabled by Economy Minister Silvio Schembri following months of negotiations with both the AUM and SmartCity Malta. The deal will see the controversial university being given a plot of land, measuring over 31,500 square metres to develop the campus it had previously been planning on an outside development zone at Żonqor in Marsascala and the dormitory on a site in Senglea, close to its present campus in Cospicua. AUM’s plans to build a campus in Marsascala had drawn nationwide protests in 2015, with the government eventually pledging to not allow that project until AUM had filled its Cospicua campus. The university’s plans to...