Watch: If the General Council votes for a leadership race, Delia will contest<\/p>\n
Opposition Leader Adrian Delia said in the early hours of Friday morning that if the General Council votes for a leadership race to take place, that he will contest.<\/p>\n
After an executive committee meeting that lasted over five hours, the two factions within the PN agreed on a way forward for the party. T<\/a>he PN’s General Council will vote on whether the tesserati (paid members) at the National Convention should be invited to confirm Adrian Delia as party leader or hold a leadership election. The General Council vote is expected to take place on 31 July.<\/p>\n If the Convention is given the option to confirm Delia, and he loses the vote, Delia said that he will resign.<\/p>\n Delia has been facing calls to resign, having lost confidence votes in the parliamentary group and the executive committee.<\/p>\n The original question that Delia wanted to put to the General Council was “Do you agree that a General Convention be called in three weeks’ time so that the PN’s tesserati (paid members) can hold a vote of confidence in Adrian Delia?”<\/p>\n This however was countered by a proposal for the General Council to hold a confidence vote, and then the aforementioned compromise was found which saw unanimous approval.<\/p>\n Addressing the press, Delia said that the executive committee saw many people contribute, and that he heard all arguments. He said there was a “clear show that everyone wanted to give their contribution.” He said that he felt that a wider choice had to be given to the General Council, but the final choice in terms of who the party wants as leader needed to be taken by the tesserati.<\/p>\n Delia said that this will be the third time that he will go before the people. The last word should always be taken by the people, Delia stressed.<\/p>\n If there is a decision to keep Delia, he said that if after the third time there is a confirmation from the voters, “then I understand everyone must respect that vote. As a party we respect the electorate and those who would continue to feel uncomfortable that I would be re-confirmed then they would have to carry that responsibility.”<\/p>\n The General Convention will take place 3 weeks after the Council vote.<\/p>\n \nSource: Independent Malta<\/a> Watch: If the General Council votes for a leadership race, Delia will contest<\/a> Watch: If the General Council votes for a leadership race, Delia will contest Opposition Leader Adrian Delia said in the early hours of Friday morning that if the General Council votes for a leadership race…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-14505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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