100 days in: Godfrey Farrugia has Mater Dei Hospital taken away from him and now Manuel Mallia loses the justice portfolio
Manuel Mallia, seen here embracing a prisoner, the former Labour MP Sandro Schembri Adami, in the prison courtyard during a celebration in which prisoners sang ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ has lost the justice portfolio.
And did I mention that the chairman of the Privatisation Unit has resigned because, after serving as governor of the Central Bank (appointed by Labour, as it happens) and seeing through the huge bulk of Malta’s traumatic privatisation programme since 1999, he only managed to stand Minister Chris Cardona for two months.
At his ‘press conference’ this morning, the prime minister announced that Manuel Mallia has lost the justice portfolio (he didn’t put it that way, but this is what it was) and that the PS for Justice, Owen Bonnici, will be moving from the Ministry of Justice, the Police, the Army and Broadcasting to the Office of the Prime Minister.
So now we have a new first for Malta: the prime minister is also the Minister for Justice. Unbelievable. Really, really, unbelievable.
And all this because he can’t make Jose Herrera the Justice Minister – not only because he’s even more incompetent and untrustworthy than Manwel Mallia, who created a hue and cry by celebrating with prisoners in the prison courtyard a few days before he lost the justice portfolio, but also because Jose Herrera is Jason Micallef’s sidekick and part of the brewing anti-Joseph Muscat faction.
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So no more visits to Corradino for Manuel Mallia who, by his own admission, said that in two months he visited there seven times.
Perhaps there is no need for him to visit prison again, as all his clients are probably now out, or soon to depart shortly?
Pathetic to say the least!
Min jaf mkemm ha jimmissjawh jahsra – kienu drawh hux gej u sejjer?
Do we know what Manwel signed and sealed in those first 100 days?
Pity the prime minister and the one pulling his puppet-strings can’t be replaced for a while yet.
Excuse my ignorance: so what is Mallia responsible for, now
Never a dull moment with PL in government
I hate to say this, but I am actually enjoying it.
Troy, mhux int ruhi qalbi injurant, dafni qed tghaffeg, ghax Mallia qatt ma kien tal gustizzja hi, imma tal intern. Tal gustizzja dejjem owen kien qalbi. Mhux int il kabocca serrah rasek ruhi ta hi.
[Daphne – Marelli kemm int stupidu, jahasra. Parliamentary secretaries are adjuncts and subservient to ministers. It is the MINISTER who is ultimately responsible for the portfolio. Owen Bonnici is a parliamentary secretary, not a minister of the Maltese government. The Minister of government responsible for justice was Manuel Mallia. Now it is the prime minister.]
Troy, Manwel Mallia has failed his probation. Even your stupidity doesn’t alter this.
Imdawrin bic-cwiec! Qas biss jihmu t-titli u rwoli ahseb u ara … u jkollna nitqannew maghhom…
Mmmm perhaps another prisoner amnesty is in the offing – to commemorate the first prime minister as minister for justice
pandora’s box …. Labour’s style, no surprises to me – we have seen this before …dejavu!