European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
The GSD say the latest statement by the Chief Minister on the Gibraltar Savings Bank (“the GSB”) shows that he is becoming increasingly erratic. The GSD statement continues:
His statements are peppered by irrational angry insults levelled at the Leader of the Opposition. The statements by Mr. Picardo that he is the most successful Leader of the Opposition in history because the GSLP-Liberals won a General Election after six months of him becoming Leader of the Opposition and that Mr. Feetham is the least successful because his party lost a by-election four months after taking the same position, is childish.
The Government has provided what it believes is a catalogue of abuses in power by the previous GSD administration. A statement reads:
The Government considers that the exchange of negative and insulting press releases which the GSD Opposition is intent on pursuing is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Unfortunately, the Government also considers that it is necessary for it to reply to most if not all negative and misleading Opposition statements in order to set the record straight.
The Government says that the latest statement by the Opposition calling for independent adjudication as to whether the Chief Minister misled Parliament or not is “complete nonsense.”