Charter flight and pocket money paid by taxpayers for mayors’ botched papal audience
Taxpayers paid for a chartered KM Malta Airlines flight and €460 subsistence allowances for each local government representative who travelled to Rome expecting a private audience with Pope Leo XIV that never happened, The Shift has learned. Sources close to the Local Councils’ Association confirmed that public funds covered the trip, including chartering an entire … Continued
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