My, my – caught lying AGAIN
Joseph Muscat, interviewed by The Sunday Times in September 2008:
ST: Is it true that the MLP will also give Cuschieri cash compensation?
JM: No…That’s false.
The Sunday Times, last month:
Newly-appointed MEP Joseph Cuschieri did not resign from his Labour Party job but stayed on the staff list while taking “long unpaid leave”, The Sunday Times has learnt.
The former St Julian’s deputy mayor had given up his parliamentary seat in 2008 so that party leader Joseph Muscat could be co-opted to Parliament.
In return he was given an unspecified full-time position at Labour’s Mile-End Headquarters and documents submitted to the European Parliament’s administration reveal he never quit the job.
According to Mr Cuschieri’s financial declaration, submitted to the EP last month, his Labour salary for the three years before he became an MEP in December was between €1,000 and €5,000 a month, although he did not give a specific figure.
After this newspaper reported he had not resigned, both Mr Cuschieri’s office and the Labour Party declined to reply to questions by The Sunday Times.
Labour has to date refused to state Mr Cuschieri’s job title and his annual salary.
Sources close to Labour told The Sunday Times that Mr Cuschieri did not have a specific role at the headquarters and his employment was a compromise swap for his parliamentary seat so that Dr Muscat could become opposition leader.
“Mr Cuschieri’s job was just the result of a deal struck with Mr Muscat,” a Labour official said. “No one really knows how much Mr Cuschieri’s salary was or what his designation was. He used to spend some time at the party’s electoral office.”
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Imagine the mettocracy applied to the choice of heads of public authorities and government owned companies.
If they act this way in opposition can you even begin to imagine how they will act in government.
And yet there certain disgruntled PN supporters who are saying they will abstain from voting in the coming elections.
Why dig up stories from 2008?
[Daphne – Because my God, it’s so long ago, isn’t it.]
Because we have, or should I say Joseph has, the benefit to examine them with hindsight.
“Mr Cuschieri’s job was just the result of a deal struck with Mr.Muscat”
In other words, Cuschieri ‘sold’ his parliamentary seat to Joseph Muscat.
Surely that calls the legitimacy of Muscat’s occupancy of that seat into serious question?
And by what right did Cuschieri enter into the deal?
Voluntarily relinquishing one’s parliamentary seat is one thing; doing that as trade off involving the exchange of money, in this case related to a fake job is another thing altogether.
The Cuschieri-Muscat deal is quite lucrative for both.