Unelected Azopardi afraid the GSD will be overtaken by Hassan’s party, says Picardo

A statement adds:"It is also pitiful to see him try to justify his in-out-in approach to membership of the GSD over the years, as he tries to excuse himself for the fact that it was the PDP that, mathematically, helped to ensure our defeat of the GSD in the 2011 General Election.

The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said: "In his transparent desperation to get himself elected into Parliament under any party brand that will help propel him, Mr Azopardi is happily risking damaging Gibraltar's international negotiating position without giving such serious potential consequences a second thought.

" Mr Azopardi is blithely suggesting that the MoUs which we have negotiated to ensure Spain has no say in our affairs are somehow the opposite. That is not true by any objective assessment. Indeed, if what the unelected Mr Azopardi is saying were true, it would also have the consequent reciprocal effect of giving Gibraltar a say in Spain's affairs.

"Moreover, if what the unelected Mr Azopardi is saying were true, he should have spotted it when he was given advance sight of the texts, but he proposed no changes at all to them - limiting his proposal to seeking to add three words to the UK/Gibraltar Concordat.

"The fact is that the public is now seeing that the unelected Mr Azopardi is not the constructive Azopardi of the PDP.

"This is a consciously destructive Azopardi who is desperate to get his name in the papers to try to avoid the GSD under his leadership being overtaken by Marlene Hassan Nahon's Together Gibraltar."

24-01-19 PANORAMAdailyGIBRALTAR