Robert Arrigo says he will not seek election to any PN post

Nationalist Party deputy leader Robert Arrigo said on Tuesday that he will not seek election to any post within the party once his term as deputy leader expires.

Arrigo has been deputy leader for the past five years, serving under Adrian Delia and then Bernard Grech. His term expires when the PN convenes a general council meeting in the coming weeks, as its rules demand when it loses a general election.

Speaking on Net Television, Arrigo said he was proud of his work as deputy leader and also for getting re-elected from two districts in the fourth general election in succession. But at 67 he was getting on, he said, and his activities, including raising over €600,000 for the party in the past few months, were a strain. Furthermore, he said, some considered him 'one of the old ones' within the party.

He thanked all those people who had voted for him and promised to continue to be of service to them.

Arrigo raised eyebrows in the wake of the general election result when, in a tweet, he pleaded for Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament and a Nationalist MEP, to help the party. He made his appeal shortly after Bernard Grech announced he would seek re-election to the...