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March 7 2004 |
Matthew Vella
Outgoing Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami is fine-tuning his legacy before leaving office at Castille, as MaltaToday is informed the Premier has already personally met up and spoken to a prospective PN candidate for the European Parliament.
The Nationalist Party has not yet started its screening of possible candidates for the European Parliament elections, but the Prime Minister saw fit to meet up with potential PN candidate Simon Busuttil, MaltaToday is informed.
Busuttil, former head of the Malta-EU Information Centre, had long been touted as one of the prospective candidates who will be fielded by the Nationalist Party for June’s European Parliament elections. Contacted by this newspaper, Busuttil chose neither to confirm nor deny that he met the Prime Minister, and would neither confirm nor deny whether he is interested in running for MEP.
The Office of the Prime Minister also chose not to confirm Fenech Adami’s direct involvement in the selection process of potential PN MEPs. Private secretary Peter Portelli said the Nationalist Party had not yet started the process of identifying candidates for the European Parliament elections. Pressed as to whether the Prime Minister had been in personal contact with any likely candidates, Portelli reiterated that the PN had not initiated the selection process.
Busuttil may well be the only potential candidate to have already earned the blessing of Eddie Fenech Adami. Former PN Minister and Water Services chairman Michael Falzon, and UHM legal counsel Ian Spiteri Bailey, have so far publicly declared their interest in running for MEP with the PN.
Other names being touted as potential candidates are former Moviment IVA figureheads Joanna Drake and David Casa, Net TV journalist Karl Stagno Navarra, and outgoing President of the Republic Guido de Marco.
matthew@newsworksltd.com
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