The recent response from the GSD to the Chief Minister's statements regarding the OEM Liquidation litigation is “striking in being so entirely contrary to the actions that the GSD pursued in Government,” says a statement from Number Six.
The protestations from the Government that the Opposition is creating uncertainty over the storage of LNG are symptomatic of a Government that “wants neither its decisions questioned nor a debate to occur on matters of significant public interest to this community” says the GSD.
The GSD says that, for a Government that is constantly accusing the GSD Opposition of irresponsibility and not having the interests of this community at heart, the Chief Minister’s statement on OEM “must rank as one of the most irresponsible statements ever issued by this or any other Government.”
The Government of Gibraltar and the Liquidator of the OEM group of companies have been in dispute for some time now as to whether or not the Government is liable to pay the Liquidator compensation in respect of certain property developments taken over by the former Government from OEM companies in 2007.
The Government has said that the Opposition, in concentrating on trying to score political points, has once again “exposed its lack of understanding of the environment.” At least, in its latest statement, says Number Six, the GSD “have the decency not to deny that the problem was one of their making by having agreed to the 1999 fishing agreement in the first place.”
