Opposition MPs walked out of Parliament on Tuesday evening after a request for a statement on allegations that Economy Minister Chris Cardona was seen drinking with one of the men accused of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder was denied.
Speaking of a "culture of fear and silence", Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia pledged to ask all the questions that the public was entitled to.
The walk-out came a few minutes after stories as part of the 'Daphne Project', an international collaborative journalism project including Times of Malta, were uploaded on Tuesday.
In making his request, Dr Delia called upon the Home Affairs Minister to deliver a statement on the allegations, asking whether Mr Cardona had in fact met the individual in question.
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Government Whip Byron Camilleri pressed him to indicate under which paragraph of the standing orders of the House he was making his request. He then requested that Deputy Speaker of the House, Claudette Buttigieg continues with House business following the Opposition leader’s failure to indicate the above.
No ministerial statement was delivered.
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