PN MP Schiavone offers to give up his seat if Bernard Grech is elected leader
Nationalist Party MP Hermann Schiavone has offered to give up his parliamentary seat, should family lawyer Bernard Grech be elected its new leader.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Schiavone, elected on the fifth electoral district, said he was willing to give up his seat to Grech if the party asked him to do it.
Schiavone had made the same offer in 2017 when he had offered to give up his seat for PN leader Adrian Delia.
“If the party asks me to give up the parliamentary seat for the Leader of the Party, I am ready to do this as I was ready to do the same three years ago because my main interest remains to strengthen the Nationalist Party, so that our country can have a strong opposition and an alternative government,” he said in a post on Facebook on Monday.
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The PN will most probably face a two-horse leadership race, with incumbent Delia and Grech the only two people to have said so far that they intend to contest. Applications close at 3pm on Monday.
Grech is a political outsider who has never run for election. Should he win the PN leadership contest, as polls suggest he is on track...