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Ilħna | "Voices"
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People's Choice Joins Big Tent Coalition
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QART QILDAR -- Following the much-publicized collapse of the Alagona-led cabinet, which was brought down by People's Choice leader Redentur Piscopo's fiery speech in the Council of Deputies and the fresh elections held in January, People's Choice has once again entered government as a junior coalition partner. Former Defense Minister Nunzio Piscopo is now serving as Internal Affairs Minister and former Science and Technology Minister Sebastjan Pellicano has been reinstated. Joining the People's Choice frontbench are Xand Piscopo, heading up Infrastructure and Transport, and former Ilħna journalist Katerin Stefanin leading on the Environment and Tourism portfolio.

"I am very proud of our continued growth as a party and, indeed, as a movement," Redentur Piscopo told Voices. "I am confident that we will continue to present a real alternative for our voters. After all, when you give the people what they want, they will speak loudly and with one voice." "I feel that we could work with just about any political movement," the septuagenarian founder of Għażla tal-Poplu responded when asked about his party's preference for working with the left, right or big tents. "As long as our voters are represented in government, then we have a purpose for carrying on."

Internal Affairs Minister Nunzio Piscopo, seen as the real political force behind GtP, has promised to "clean up the streets," and "ramp up investigations into corruption." It remains to be seen what legislative fixes the Minister has in mind.

Ilħna is the closely-held media empire founded by Redentur Piscopo, who also leads Għażla tal-Poplu.

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Originally posted by Reximus on 11 Jul 2023.