The Privileges Committee shall be considering a breach of privilege complaint against justice shadow minister Jason Azzopardi regarding his statement that Justice Minister Owen Bonnici had lied to parliament. On Monday, Speaker Anġlu Farrugia asked Dr Azzopardi to retract his statement so that he could consider the case closed. He warned that unless the statement was retracted, he would take "further steps". Dr Azzopardi had immediately said he would be appealing the ruling. Dr Farrugia today told Parliament he would be passing the case to the Privileges Committee. Opposition leader Simon Busuttil asked the Speaker to also apply the ruling to him as he also believed that Dr Bonnici had lied to Parliament regarding the commission paid to Henley & Partners, the administrators of the Individual Investor Programme. Dr Busuttil said Dr Bonnici had tried to gag the Opposition and stifle freedom of expression when he raised a breach of privilege complaint against a journalist.
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