Opposition supports GRTU's call for 30 per cent reduction in electricity tariffs
The Opposition fully supports the GRTU’s call for a 30 per cent reduction in electricity tariffs for prices to reflect the drop in the price of oil, party leader Simon Busuttil said this morning.
Speaking on Radio 101, Dr Busuttil said the Opposition also believed petrol and diesel prices should go down and would keep putting pressure on the government until this was done.
The Nationalist Party leader also reiterated his call for an independent inquiry into how thousands of residency permits and visas were being issued.
Dr Busuttil requested the inquiry during a Security Committee meeting on Thursday.
He had asked for the meeting to be held after a scandal affecting the issuing of visas and residence permits was uncovered.
Dr Busuttil pointed out this morning that not only had the Prime Minister not called the meeting himself, he took three weeks to hold the meeting.
He pointed out that 14,000 residence permits were issued for people from outside the EU to come and live in Malta last year.
This was as many as the number of residents in Mosta and as many as the number of irregular immigrants arriving in Malta in 10 years.
Dr Busuttil said that now that it was known that there was...