Soviet-style management: appoint your spy to the top of an ‘autonomous’ organisation
Michael Farrugia at lunch in Xlendi a couple of weeks ago, with his girlfriend and his MEPA consultant Robert Musumeci, and his girlfriend Magistrate Herrera.
What’s the point of an environment and planning authority if it has no autonomy?
I know it’s Labour we’re talking about, but imagine BOASTING about something like this, as if it’s normal or even something to be proud of.
Times of Malta reports today on Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia’s personal choice of Labour apparatchik Johann Buttigieg to the top executive post at the Malta Environment & Planning Authority, and this when there was supposed to have been an internal call for applications.
When asked about this in May, the parliamentary secretary responsible for Mepa, Michael Farrugia, had admitted that Mr Buttigieg was his “point of reference” at the authority and was helping to give Mepa “a certain direction”.
He had said he had been instructing Mr Buttigieg on what needed to be done.
Asked why he had chosen Mr Buttigieg, Dr Farrugia said he could trust him. Mr Buttigieg could also provide him with precise information about what was going on.
As I said a few days ago on this website, anyone in a position to do so, and who prizes normality, should just pack up and leave Malta. What we have seen over the last four months is the thin end of the wedge. It will get worse, until the grossest abuses are normalised.
The grossest abuses are, in fact, normalised already. This is one such.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130802/local/New-Mepa-chief-to-get-60k-and-perks.480447
Saw this guy on TVHemm, couldn’t believe my ears, he kept on about ‘dik il-x’jghidulha’ referring to policies.
Deidun was baffled, Norman tried and tried again to clarify for the audience at home.
Saw him as well. Definitely, he’s in (competent).
Right from the start the government had made a vote of no-confidence in the MEPA board.
It is the board to whom anybody at MEPA is accountable. Having an employee answering to and spying officially for the minister shows how MEPA is going to be managed. The board might as well pack and leave.
I have to report still no change.
Internet works well, no power cuts here, postal deliveries all getting through, prices not skyrocketing, exchange rate stable (they can’t fuck up the euro).
I wonder what will be the first sign of change I shall notice.
[Daphne – God, what an idiotic statement. As if those are the things that matter. You can have a dictatorship with all of that working.]
But power cuts here, at least 5 since March.
Unemployment increasing.
Investment into Malta down.
Government spending up.
But given your propensity to not look further than your own nose, rest assured that the first sign that you will see however will be in the next budget, when taxes and duties are raised as the deficit projected by PL not be attainable due to the above. And when electricity rates are not cut becuase the price of gas is increasing.
Alexander, you have not lived here long enough. It is fear of the past, not postal deliveries that matter.
We are now being ruled by ‘incompetents with intent’. It’s called ‘rewind time’.
Sad times ahead.
China has Internet access.
Do people know that Johann Buttigieg is also a property developer who in conjunction with an accountant and a well known Mellieha hotel owner runs a development company?