Acting Speaker warns disorder may force him to evict MPs
The Acting Speaker of the House, Ċensu Galea, warned today that he may have to resort to temporarily evicting MPs from the House, a measure not used for some 20 years, if disorder in the House continued.
He issued his warning after the House was briefly suspended for the second time in as many days because of disorder.
The latest incident occurred as Nationalist MP David Agius complained that somebody had taken a picture of MP Beppe Fenech Adami from the benches when this was not allowed. The picture was uploaded on Glenn Bedingfield's blog and it was clear that it was not taken off Parliament TV, Mr Agius said.
Mr Galea, while saying he would investigate, added that if MPs did not expect people to take pictures of them from the Strangers' Gallery, they should not take pictures themselves.
Earlier, Justice Minister Owen Bonnici intervened briefly to ask Opposition leader Simon Busuttil what action he would take over criticism of Jason Azzopardi made in two reports by the Auditor-General, published two days ago.
Dr Busuttil said Beppe Fenech Adami had replied eloquently yesterday to a similar question, and, amid interruptions, he added that Dr Bonnici had now proved to not only...