Letters | Sunday, 24 January 2010

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No censorship of PL minutes demanded

I refer to your unsigned front-page article ‘First GonziPN, now it’s Muscat-PL’ (17 January, 2010) in which you incorrectly and unfoundedly alleged that: “Adding further to the furtiveness of the motion, at the end of the meeting Zebbug mayor Alfred Grixti suggested that Muscat’s threatening comment that he would push the motion in the general conference if the executive did not approve it, be removed from the meeting’s minutes. Grixti said that in this way ‘events taking place in the national executive would not reach the media.’”
This allegation is completely untrue, maliciously misleading and nowhere near to what I said after the vote on Dr Joseph Muscat’s proposal had been taken, when I asked that just as the National Executive had done in 1998 in a similar situation, the proposed motion would now be presented to the forthcoming General Conference by the National Executive itself as its own motion.
Nowhere and at no point did I ever in the remotest way, suggest that anything that was said during the National Executive’s meeting of Monday, 11 January 11, 2010 should in any way be excised, censored or removed from the minutes of the meeting.
Since the anonymous author of this unsigned report wants this paper’s readers to believe that s/he has inside knowledge of what was said and how many people were present, s/he may wish to confirm all this with his/her so called sources.
Finally, since your anonymous author chose to describe me as the mayor of Zebbug, it is pertinent to point out that it is precisely in this capacity that I have confirmed my credentials in championing complete truthfulness and total transparency in the way by which official meetings are minuted. Indeed, when the issue was raised a few months ago, I personally insisted that each and every meeting of the Council should continue to be recorded and that the ensuing minutes should faithfully and meticulously report what was said in the meeting.

Alfred Grixti
Zebbug

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