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Published: November 8, 2013 at 8:11pm

This comment has been sent in by former ambassador Noel Buttigieg Scicluna:

I hope Henley and Partners will be telling their customers about the stand taken by the Opposition. If not should a future Nationalist government withdraw such passports, Henley and Partners will be subject to action for substantial damages by their customers for lack of full disclosure.




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  1. C Calleja says:
    November 9, 2013 at 8:23 am

    With the Nationalist Party saying that it will revoke bought passports, Henley & Partners is in effect buying votes for the Labour Party. Because whoever values his newly bought citizenship will surely vote Labour to keep it.

    [Daphne – Citizenship is a prerequisite for voting, but in and of itself it does not give you the right to vote in Maltese general elections. There are other requirements.]

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    • Tabatha White says:
      November 9, 2013 at 10:27 pm

      Daphne, Could you delve into the “other requirements” and whether these can be amended, accommodated or facilitated to suit a wish to link the aspiring New Citizens to a vote? After all, the big hurdle is the first. Living in Malta, applying for an Identity Card etc., surely those are secondary, but minor hurdles?

      I envision the necessary paperwork for all conditions to be met, being made available and expected in before the passport is actually handed over.

      Verifying residence would be a joke.

      I believe that although voting rights shouldn’t be automatic, in effect, they will be.

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