Updated at 9.05pm with Mark Anthony Sammut comments
The Nationalist Party’s regional committee for Gozo has asked the party leadership to nullify the co-option vote held on Saturday to fill David Stellini’s vacated parliamentary seat.
In a letter to PN leader Adrian Delia, the Gozo committee said that Mr Stellini should not have been allowed to take part in the vote and threatened to take legal action against its own party if the vote was not declared null and void.
The letter, which was shared with the media on Sunday evening, threw the PN into further chaos and prompted a strong reaction from Mark Anthony Sammut, who quit as PN executive committee president in disgust on Saturday.
“It seems that not only did Gozo have a parliamentary seat stolen, but it was stolen through deception,” he wrote on Facebook. 
Saturday’s vote
Mr Stellini had announced his decision to quit parliament last Tuesday, but had nevertheless taken part in the executive committee meeting and cast a vote to nominate his replacement, the committee said in its letter.
Given that Mr Stellini’s membership in the executive committee stemmed from his seat in parliament, he should never have been allowed to play a…