In a candid appeal in the wake of last weekend’s vote of confidence in his leadership, recently-embattled Nationalist Party Leader Adrian Delia asks all factions of the splintered party to come together.

“Now,” he says, “starts the time for healing, the time for rebuilding, the time for re-establishing ourselves as a credible, strong and unified Opposition”.

In an opinion piece in today’s issue, Delia says it is now “time to make it right”.

“These coming weeks are crucial,” he says.  “We emerged from a difficult period. The lack of unity over the past months hindered the PN’s ability to carry out its duties effectively. Internal party matters were at times stealing our attention away from national matters.”

Those days, Delia insists, are now over:  “From now onwards, our attention has to be, and will solely be, on providing the answers that the public rightly expects from us. People now more than ever want a strong and united Opposition capable of providing an alternative to the incumbent government.”

Opinion piece here