Nationalist MEP candidate Alex Perici Calascione missed out on last Saturday’s party organised at Mistra by Nationalist parliamentarian Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, after he had to be hospitalised in Gozo for what sources defined as “indigestion.”
Approximately 600 people attended the party that was organised on the controversial site, and were told that Alex Perici Calascione was kept under observation at the Gozo General Hospital after he complained of chest pains that were later attributed to indigestion and stress.
Sources confirmed Perici Calascione was physically unable to make it to the party, and denied that the candidate was absconding from the party, which has embarrassed senior party officials for rekindling memories of the Mistra scandal in the 2008 election.
Perici Calascione was reportedly door-to-door campaigning in various localities around Gozo on Saturday morning, when he asked his canvassers to accompany him to hospital. He was discharged from hospital the following morning and subsequently travelled to Malta and continued with his campaign.
The Mistra party itself was criticised by Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil to be “in bad taste”, inviting reactions from Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando who said Busuttil was “in no position” to judge him.
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