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Cyrus Engerer case shows Muscat’s lack of political judgement Busuttil The Cyrus Engerer conviction case shows Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s lack of political judgement, according to Opposition leader Simon Busuttil. Speaking ahead of an interview with The Sunday Times of Malta, Dr Busuttil said Dr Muscat should never have accepted Mr Engerer on his European Parliament candidates’ list. “The Prime Minister always realises his mistake too late in the day. The Prime Minister’s champion for gay rights has been found guilty of a crime which by its very nature is homophobic.” Mr Engerer has withdrawn from the European Parliament elections Joseph Muscat Despite being staunchly against Malta's entry into the European Union, Muscat was elected to the ur Party) candidate who received the most first-preference votes. Sitting as a with the s, he held the post of Vice-President of the Parliament's and substitute member of the He was a member of a number of delegations for relations with and with the countries of south-e. He was also a member of the EU- EU- and EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committees. As an MEP he supported a reduction in the tax for S, the right for customers to watch sport events for free, and a number of issues related to in Malta. He formed part of a team responsible for a report on the roaming bills and sale of banks. Muscat resigned his seat in in 2008 to take up a seat in the and the role of. Four months previously, he had been of the Before his resignation his report proposing new regulations for the EU’s financial services sector was adopted by the. n 24 March 2008 Muscat announced his candidacy for the post of Party Leader, to replace had resigned after a third consecutive defeat for the Party in the and a heavy defeat in the EU referendum in March 2003.Although not a member of the Muscat was elected as the new party leader on 6 June 2008. In order to take up the post of Leader of the Opposition, Muscat was n the Maltese Parliament on 1 October 2008 to fill the seat vacated by or the purpose. The latter eventually took up the sixth seat allocated to Malta in the the n was brought into effect in 2011. On taking up the Leadership post Muscat introduced a number of changes to the Party, notably the change of official name and party emblem., the first with Muscat as Party Leader, Labour candidates obtained 55% of first-preferences against the 40% obtained by candidates of the Muscat contested Malta's general elections for the first time in nd was elected in District 2 - Il-Birgu, L-Isla, Il-Bormla, Ħaż-Żabbar, Il-Kalkara, Ix-Xgħajra at the first count with 13968 votes and District 4 - Part of Il-Fgura, Il-Gudja, Ħal Għaxaq, Part of Il-Marsa, Paola, Santa Luċija, Ħal Tarxien at the first count Political parties must unite on migration Joseph Muscat with 12202 votes and 53% of the vote.[] On 11 March 2013 he was sworn in as In a speech that pushed away from last year’s pushback threat, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat asked how many more lives had to be lost before the European Union takes action on migration. Hundreds are feared death after another boat capsized today off the coast of Lampedusa, outside Malta’s and Italy’s territorial waters. According to Muscat, over 200 persons have been rescued but several others are feared dead. The boat is believed to have been carrying over 400 migrants. Addressing a political activity in Msida, Muscat called for a minute of silence in solidarity with the victims and said “Europe has failed again”. “We had another tragedy. It is now the time to forget about the electoral votes and the elections and, as a nation, both parties have to send a clear message to Europe that Italy and Malta cannot be left alone,” he said. Muscat added that in the past weeks, Italy and Malta saved thousands of lives through joint operations. Once again, Muscat called for a common policy migration, a proposal being pushed forward by Martin Schulz, candidate for the European Commission President elections.