‘Robert Abela fomenting racism to split the PN’

Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia has accused Prime Minister Robert Abela of using the State broadcaster to foment racism in an attempt to split the Opposition.
Interviewed on Net Television on Sunday, he said it was rather contradictory that the government was trying to make the case it could not receive more migrants, when it had been promoting the country as a destination for "slave labour" for foreigners.
“In the last 48 hours we assisted to a prime minister who deliberately chose to fuel racism and fear in an attempt to take advantage of the current situation to divide the opposition and the country,” he said.
Delia was referring to a televised statement on TVM which the prime minister gave on Friday night in which he lashed out at the Opposition on various fronts. 

The Opposition leader insisted that nobody should be allowed to drown even if the country’s resources were being stretched.
“The real discord is not on whether to save these people, but on their subsequent relocation,” Delia said.
However, he said it was quite ironic that government was saying it had no more room to accommodate migrants reaching Malta by boats, when it had been “inviting” around 50,000...