The Maltese government won a vote of confidence on Monday (18 April) two weeks after the Panama Papers shed light on shady deals by several officials.
Following a 13-hour debate, MPs backed the government by 38 votes to 31.
“We accept this scrutiny, but our duty is to keep working in the next two years to show that this Malta is truly everybody’s,” prime minister Joseph Muscat said during the debate.
He added that the opposition led by the Nationalist Party (PN) had proposed...
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