PN wants Konrad Mizzi to continue facing PAC grilling
Updated 8.02am with PN statement The Opposition will be calling for Konrad Mizzi to continue being grilled by MPs over the controversial power station deal. Nationalist Party sources told Times of Malta that the PN’s parliamentary group had on Tuesday evening agreed to call for the controversial former minister to be brought in to continue facing MPs’ questions. That was later confirmed in an official statement issued by the party on Wednesday morning. Opposition members of the PAC would be asking for the committee probe to continue "at the first opportunity", the PN said. The PN representatives on the committee are Darren Carabott, who also serves as PAC chair, David Agius and Graham Bencini. In the last legislature, Mizzi was repeatedly quizzed by parliament’s Public Accounts Committee as part of its probe into the Electrogas power station deal. Mizzi had spearheaded the deal during his time as energy minister. When asked last month whether the PN intended to continue pursuing the matter in the PAC, party leader Bernard Grech had replied "we have no problem to continue asking questions, where necessary." Ball in government's court The ball is now in the government’s...