Before the election 58% of Nationalists believed him. Now, that figure has dropped to only 24%. By James Debono
The number of Nationalists believing that Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando was saying the truth about the Mistra spin valley disco has fallen from 58% before the election, to just 24% now, a MaltaToday survey reveals.
The surveys confirms that Pullicino Orlando, who shed tears in public to prove his innocence and later stormed into a PBS studio to confront Alfred Sant, had succeeded in convincing a majority of Nationalist voters before the election.
But after the publication of a damning MEPA Audit Office report decrying various illegalities in the permit issued for the proposed disco, as well as a pending police investigation, Pullicino Orlando seems to have lost the electorate’s trust.
Among the general population only 12% believe that Pullicino Orlando was saying the truth before the election. Nearly half – 46% – now want Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to resign from parliament, while 24% want him to resign if found guilty of corruption.
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