This is the way promotions are now made in Maltese army – here’s a leaked email you can read
Note: MHAS stands for Ministry of Home Affairs and Security, Manuel Mallia’s outfit. From the panic-stricken urgency of the need to have these promotions published in the Government Gazette today (Friday), we can assume that this was important for a reason. Now we have to work out what the reason is. Thanks go to the member of my international worldwide network of spies who very kindly sent this in.
From: Mercieca Joanne at MHAS
Sent: 25 September 2013 11:50
To: Oswald Diane at OPM; Azzopardi Paul C at OPM
Cc: Scerri Silvio at MHAS; Mahoney Kevin at MHAS; Defence at MHAS; Xuereb Martin G at AFM; Degaetano Gerald at AFM
Subject: VERY URGENT: Notice in MGG re promotions in the AFM
Importance: High
Director of Information
OPM
Kindly publish the attached in next Friday’s edition of the Government Gazette. A hard copy is also being referred to you in the usual manner by normal post.
Please treat as VERY URGENT.
Regards
Joanne Mercieca
Director Defence Matters
Attachment to email:
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The explanation for their rapid and unprecedented method of promotion lies not in their exceptional abilities but in their rabid support for the Labour Party. Mintoffjani all.
It’s not just about promotions.
Appointments, jobs for the boys, dismissals… you name it, they are all done with the stroke of a pen.
Not to mention the new ‘Identity Malta’, where each and every one of us has an open ‘Facebook’ page on Minister Mallia’s PC.
She must have meant “this Friday ” if it was that urgent.
She clearly does not know the difference between “this Friday” and “next Friday”.
How sad for these people.
What really gets to me is the fact that this government is promoting individuals who are not up to getting the job done.
I can tell you, for example, that Labour supporters working in the Ministry FOR Foreign Affairs are livid with their leader.
A number of the ambassadors he appointed are just not up to the appointment. They do not even understand or appreciate the post that they have been given. And those Labour supporters who live in Malta, who have served at the Ministry, voted in this Labour government and progressed in their career UNDER THE NATIONALIST ADMINISTRATION, have been ignored, and some even recalled from abroad.
Good for them and their short sightedness. They got what they deserved
Now, one wonders how ‘Degaetano Gerald’ fits into this?
Yes, one wonders. We’ll know in a few days.
Such great urgency would be explicable if Malta was in imminent danger of being invaded or invading some other country.
Mark Mallia is ADC to the president, George Abela.
Does the President approve of this obscenity?
Of course he does.
He’s now a puppet on a string.
He always was. In retrospect, one of Gonzi’s biggest mistakes,
He has always been a puppet on a string
Has not the President done the same at the Palace. You forgot the nepotism that goes on there.
Ha jgibu lil Malta gharkuptejha.
Not to detract from the main thing, but “has been pleased”? Someone using google translate again? And who are we talking about? “ghogbu japprova”? Emperor Augustus?
The phrase is used in the UK, where ranks for commissioned officers (not NCOs) in the armed forces, knighthoods, decorations and court appointments such as Poet Laureate or Astronomer Royal are officially conferred by Her Majesty.
Not by a government minister,
So much for “Repubblika ta’ Malta”.
We screeched and kicked until we got the Republic and we can’t even use it.
The biggest loser is the AFM itself. Respect is of paramount importance in the army. When promotions and appointments are dished out on the basis of party allegiance, all order is lost. Will the newly appointed colonels discipline diehard labourite soldiers if the need arises?