Legal experts disagree on President’s role in disability benefits pardon

Law professor Kevin Aquilina (left) and former judge Giovanni Bonello interpret the constitution differently.

Legal experts disagree on whether the President of the Republic had any choice in signing a pardon to hundreds of people who fraudulently received disability benefits they were not entitled to.While former judge Giovanni Bonello believes Malta’s constitution makes it clear that granting the pardon was at the “personal prerogative” of the president, law professor...