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The Nationalist Party has taken PBS to court to ensure the state broadcaster stops eroding the right to factual information.

On Wednesday, PN secretary-general Michael Piccinino filed a court case to ensure that the Maltese and Gozitan people get all the real information, as it deserves in a true democracy.

The Nationalist Party will not allow Robert Abela and his government to censor those who do not agree with them from public broadcasting, which is being used as if it were a Labour Party propaganda machine, the Opposition said.

It added that the case will also seek to ensure that the Broadcasting Authority provides a true balance in national broadcasting and that it is no longer complicit in the propaganda by failing to appropriate action when an imbalance occurs.

The case was signed by lawyers Paul Borg Olivier and Francis Zammit Dimech.

In reaction, the Labour Party defended the public broadcaster it effectively controls and said it will not accept the PNs bullying tactics.

Accusing PN leader Bernard Grech of looking for a fight with PBS and the Broadcasting Authority, the party in government said that the Opposition leader is looking for an excuse to justify the lack of trust he enjoys within the PN and the wider electorate.

Earlier this month, the PN had filed a similar judicial protest against PBS and the Broadcasting Authority, asking the court to condemnand stopthem from perpetuating the censorshipof anything critical against Prime MinisterRobert Abela, which has persisted for years.

The Opposition charged that PBS refused to report and show footage of the unprecedented scenes inside and outside of parliament on 12 July 2023, after government voted against a public inquiry into the death of construction victim Jean Paul Sofia.

This came after the PN filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Authority, however while the regulator ruled that PBS should have reported the events it failed to issue any order for the state broadcaster to comply.

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