The motion was tabled last July by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and alleges “transparent” political bias that “significantly and completely” compromised the audit report’s accuracy and reliability. The Government, which has an in-built majority in Parliament, said it would defeat the GSD motion and amend it to refocus it on Mr Azopardi. Mr Azopardi said the Opposition had been told on September 12 that Parliament would sit as from September 23. “I therefore expected that the motion was unlikely to come on till after questions on Thursday 25 September or Friday 26 September,” Mr Azopardi said in a statement on Monday night. “I told Mr Azopardi, when he reached out to me, the reasons why we could not start later in the month,” Mr Picardo said.