Grech denies stopping Azzopardi from filing court case against Electrogas

PN Leader Bernard Grech said on Tuesday that he never stopped Jason Azzopardi from filing a case against Electrogas, a claim made by the former Nationalist MP.

Azzopardi has accused Grech of stopping him from putting his name on a court case filed by NGO Repubblika in relation to the controversial power station contract.

Bernard Grech refutes Azzopardi’s allegations and says it is not down to one person to say what is right. Video: Matthew Mirabelli

The former PN MP had told Lovin Malta that he and lawyer Edward Debono had worked for weeks on putting together legal arguments on the case, only for him to be stopped by Grech when he informed the party about it.

According to Azzopardi, when he informed party officials that he had everything in hand to initiate the case, he was asked to pull the brakes. In the court case, Repubblika is calling for the Electrogas power station deal with the government to be cancelled because of fraud that breached consumers’ fundamental rights. 

Questioned on Tuesday outside parliament, Bernard Grech denied ever having stopped Azzopardi, adding that the former MP had never complained to him about being stopped from filing such a case.

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