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As he walks out of his office as Nationalist Party deputy leader, a disillusioned Robert Arrigo says the pain the party caused him over the last two years is worse than the pain he feels from the cancer he was diagnosed with five weeks ago.
“I gave everything to the party, down to my very health, and I am so hurt to see my party going down like this,” he said.
The 67-year-old entrepreneur, MP and former Sliema mayor claims he started to be sidelined the day after Bernard Grech was elected leader in 2020.
“Bernard Grech asked me to meet him at his home a few days before the election between him and Adrian Delia. I was still going to vote for Delia and I made this clear to him, because I never want to vote any leader out of office. But he asked me to give him ideas on how we can bring about unity in the party,” he recalled.
“Then, the day after he was elected leader, on the Monday, he called me in again and told me he was going to shift the responsibility of the party finances, which I held, onto someone else.
“He told me he would do the same with the house visits programme that I had started and the schemes and memberships I was in charge of.”
7 авг 2022
