Lino Farrugia the Secretary General of the The Federation for Hunting and Conservation – Malta (FKNK) said in a statement this afternoon that on behalf of its 10,000 adult members and their families it would like to “congratulate the Labour Party Movement and its leader and Prime Minister, Dr. Joseph Muscat, for the Party’s historical Malta General Elections victory of the 9th instant, in particular for Dr. Muscat’s personal achievement. Prosit and Thank You!”

The FKNK said that it “is convinced that the Labour Party Movement in government will restore hunters and trappers and their respective families’ dignity and respect, besides their national Maltese and Gozitan and European citizen rights. This includes these thousands of families’ rights to enjoy their privately owned Maltese countryside land.”

Lino Farrugia said that “the FKNK is set to carry on with the good work that it had ongoing with a Labour Party Working Group for the last three years, which led to the issuing of the Labour Party/FKNK joint media release of the 4 March 2013.”

Farrugia conclued, “thus, in the wake of a new spring, and on the bases of the media release, the Maltese Government with FKNK’s aid is ready to correctly apply derogation from the “Birds” Directive to permit a limited and controlled hunting and trapping open season for the turtle dove and the quail this April 2013.”

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