MPs ‘did not rebel’ against PN on IVF law – Alex Perici Calascione

Newly-elected Nationalist Party deputy leader Alex Perici Calascione would have voted in favour of the IVF law amendments last month but he does not feel that the three MPs who voted against the bill were deliberately trying to rebel against the party.

“The amendments that the PN proposed fundamentally changed the original law drafted by the government.

“I consequently agree with those who voted in favour of the law and I would have done the same,” he told Times of Malta in a short interview at his home the morning after he was elected.

“But that doesn’t mean that by voting against it, Adrian Delia, Alex Borg and Ivan Bartolo were rebelling or voluntarily going against the party to spite it. They only did what they thought was right in their conscience.”

Last month, parliament approved the controversial amendments to the IVF law.

Both parties voted in favour of the law, except for the three Nationalist MPs, who insisted it went against their conscience.

Perici Calascione, a lawyer by profession, former president of the PN’s executive committee and party treasurer, was elected deputy leader of the Nationalist Party in a one-horse race on Saturday, securing 90 per cent of the...