There were heated arguments in a court room this morning after the Labour Party failed to produce two witnesses it had summoned in the case over mistakes in the vote counting of the 2013 general election. A court had given the party a deadline of today to produce its witnesses after complaints that the case was being dragged out. When the case continued to be heard, the PL produced PN sub-delegate Ian Micallef and Electoral Commission official Vanni Ganado as witnesses. But another two Electoral Commission officials - Louis Fsadni and Anthony Gellel - did not turn up because they were not found. The court was told that a wrong address was given for one of them and no one opened the door in the latter case. Amid heated debate, Justice Lorainne Schembri Orland pointed out that she had given a deadline of today for production of the witnesses. Lawyer Toni Abela, representing the Labour Party, argued that he had done his duty and he was not at fault for what had happened. It was the Electoral Commission which had not traced the officials or had given the wrong address. The court insisted that the deadline was today but suspended the sitting to 1pm for the witnesses to be...
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