So, was Edward Scicluna involved in those 51 Proposti, and if he wasn’t, then why not?
The main question, the obvious question, that has to be asked now about Edward Scicluna – OF Edward Scicluna, in fact – is whether he is the go-to man for information about the Labour Party’s economic policies.
So far, the little impromptu speaking that has been done on the Labour Party’s behalf on economic matters has been done by him, in the incongruous position of somebody sitting in a parliament other than Malta’s.
While Karmenu Vella keeps his lips sealed as he sits on his eggs desperately hoping they’ll hatch, that other member of the Labour Party gerontocracy, Scicluna, dispatches irregular bulletins from Brussels.
But perhaps a far more pressing question is this: were the now infamous, the risible, 51 PROPOSTI his work?
If the answer is No, then we have good reason to worry that the Labour Party did not consult him even though it plans, almost certainly, to make him finance minister. Why was he sidelined?
And if the answer is Yes, then we have even greater cause to worry, for reasons that are obvious in that document.
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Daphne, complementary to your question, and without detracting from it: when he becomes Labour’s finance minister, does Edward Scicluna plan to implement economic and financial policy whose architect before the general elections would have been Perit Karmenu Vella?
It seems that dreams of glory are in place for this man to somehow be recognized
The one on the university stipends is surely not his.
http://edwardscicluna.blogspot.com/2009/06/moderate-face-of-labour.html
[Daphne – What daft reasoning. I hadn’t read this before and I’m shocked. The Nationalist Party is so secure that it does what it likes? The opposite is true:it’s position is always precarious because there are more C2DE people in this country than there are ABC1 and every general election is a fight to the death, or rather a fight to avoid a Hugo Chavez scenario.]
Who exactly is the Ghaqal speaker about Finance and the Economy?
Is it Charles Mangion, Karmenu Vella, or Edward Scicluna?
Is Edward the final blow to Charles Mangion?
Have you noticed how the Economist Dr. Joseph Muscat has not mentioned free health in his 51 proposals?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/just-look-at-the-famous-51-proposti-theyre-like-something-drafted-by-il-partit-tal-farfett/
OK, now see what the other Economist, Professor Edward Scicluna, Joseph’s Minister of Finance, thinks about free health. See 8.47.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4y9wlOwjnc&feature=player_embedded