Opposition leader Bernard Grech has been forced to choose a different sandwich to the one he wanted for lunch today, after facing uproar from Nationalist Party MPs and their constituents.
Grech and his parliamentary group were ordering lunch on a food delivery app after the PN leader had chosen his new shadow cabinet.
A PN source told Bis-Serjetà that Grech wanted to order a barbecue pulled pork sandwich from a nearby cafe. However, several MPs vociferously objected, saying he should get a chicken salad sandwich instead, since he usually ordered the latter and this was not the time for radical changes.
“When Bernard insisted he wanted pulled pork, Robert Arrigo and Stephen Spiteri stood up and threatened to quit the party on the spot. Then they phoned their district committees, who said they would also resign en masse if he didn’t order the chicken sandwich,” the source claimed.
Grech is said to have reluctantly backtracked on his order and chosen the chicken, while also bowing to PN MPs’ demands for him to perform a U-turn on his drink preference and get a bottled of peach iced tea, instead of the lemon he wanted.
“I think Bernard is starting to realise that despite being party leader, his lunch is in the hands of other party members,” the source suggested.
