Malta’s constitution is like a badly-written essay that needed to be completely reworked, Democratic Party leader Godfrey Farrugia has said. 
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Dr Farrugia said he was personally in favour of a constitutional re-write, rather than the current one being amended.
He warned about the risks of the constitutional reform process being hijacked by the two main parties.
Dr Farrugia said that last Wednesday a brainstorming session about constitutional reform had taken place between the two parties.
He said PD had the political will to be part of this process and not allow it to be hijacked by the Nationalist Party and Labour Party.
He said such a process had to be driven from the bottom up.
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Dr Farrugia said the process should be open to all spheres of society, including political parties not represented in parliament, academia as well as independent bodies such as the Ombudsman.
He said the constitutional convention should last for at least two years with broad participation from the people.

Once a draft constitution had been agreed on, he said this draft should be tabled in Parliament and…