Several thousand people filled a square in Malta’s capital on Saturday and demanded the resignation of the prime minister, Joseph Muscat, after the Panama Papers said two of his political allies had offshore accounts.

The rally, organized by the opposition outside the prime minister’s office, drew no official comment from Muscat. He said on Wednesday that he would take a decision on the future of his two allies when he knows all the facts and on the basis of public sentiment.

The Nationalist Party opposition wants the removal of Health and Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi and the prime minister’s Chief of Staff, Keith Schembri.

The Panama Papers showed how Mizzi set up a company in Panama and a trust in New Zealand.

The opposition has presented a parliamentary motion of no confidence in the government.

The Panama Papers scandal broke a week ago when the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it had received 11.5 million leaked documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca showing how offshore companies are used to stash the wealth of the world’s elite.

The leak quickly led to the resignation of Iceland’s prime minister and embroiled British Prime Minister David Cameron in difficulties over offshore investments made by his father.