UPDATED: Mrs Konrad Mizzi’s contract with her husband’s government
My government gave my wife a massive contract – and this here on my right is Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s wife, to whom I gave a job as CEO of ARMS Ltd. So you see, my government is an Equal Opportunities Cronyist.
Read the contract here: Mrs Konrad Mizzi’s contract with the government of which her husband forms a key part
You have to scroll down to find Mrs Konrad Mizzi’s contract, because just before it, you will find that of the former ambassador to China, which the government has also released. Apart from the fact that nobody has asked for or wants the contract of the former ambassador to China, and he is not in the news so releasing his contract is completely uncalled for, Mrs Konrad Mizzi is not Malta’s ambassador to China and so the comparison is fallacious.
The government has already appointed an ambassador to China: Clifford Borg Marks. If the government wishes to make comparisons of Mrs Konrad Mizzi’s contract to that of an ambassador to China, then the proper comparison would be to the PRESENT ambassador to China, not the past.
The fact that the government has released the contract of a FORMER ambassador to China rather than the PRESENT one, its own appointee, can only mean that it doesn’t want to release the present ambassador’s because:
1. he is paid less than Mrs Konrad Mizzi; or
2. he is paid more than Mrs Konrad Mizzi and therefore more than the previous ambassador; and/or
3. there are clauses in his contract that shouldn’t be there because he is not an ambassador who has moved into China and will move out again; he has lived there for decades and intends to carry on doing so, therefore he should not be eligible for certain allowances but is probably receiving them anyway.
But the essential point remains that Mrs Konrad Mizzi is not an ambassador to China and should not have an identical contract to that of an ambassador to China.
Please send in your comments and observations. Mine will follow later.
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Why does the contract show her as holder of passport number 0001102 and not her ID number 318606L?
Does she still have a Chinese passport? Isn’t that illegal under Chinese law?
In the absence of contact details for her in China, do we use the Sliema address or the Swieqi one?
How do you attract business if you are not contactable?
What about the data protection act? Muscat has published her confidential details.
Our ambassador in Beijing is Clifford Borg Marks; Mrs Konrad Mizzi is a minister’s wife.
Chinese citizens are not allowed dual citizenship under any circumstances.
The reality is that many Chinese citizens hold a second passport, issued by another country, often Communist Party officials.
The PRC expects its citizens to admit the acquisition of a second passport and to renounce their Chinese citizenship.
The general public, given the opportunity, show disfavor upon dual passport holders when the facts become known – obviously no body has reported Ms Sai Liang Mizzi to the appropriate PRC authority.
The locating of a direct air link in the south of China will be very convenient for this very special lady.
Sai Mizzi is another one who has some sort of control over the prime minister. What I’m not sure of is if it’s in a ‘brown envelope’ or on a ‘pen drive.’
We need a court case with a good lawyer waving it about to know which one it is.
No, not Sai Mizzi per se. Look for the person she represents.
Miskina, she has to pay for her pillows.
If Sai Mizzi Liang buys her pillows from Manwel Mallia, they pay for themselves.
If only Konrad’s government would give MY wife a similar contract, I would vote PL for ever and ever amen.
Dawn b’min ghalihom jahsbu li qed jitnejku?
Bic-cwiec biss.
Bil-maggjoranza tal-poplu.
Zibel, ilkoll kemm intkom.
Titnejku bl-injurant u l-povru batut, bil-haddiem.
13000 euro fix xahar meta l-haddiem qed jaqla’ forsi 800.
Il-500 euro tal-membri tal kabinett tal-ministri rajtu zejda. L-eluf ghal naqra ta’ Ciniza le.
Imisskom tisthu, izda lanqas biss tafu kif.
U milli jidher l-poplu ghadu stordut. Ghadu lanqas intebah x’laqtu. Dalwaqt ikun tard wisq..
Il-Poplu kien stordut, ghadu stordut u jibqa stordut ghaliex fil-maggjoranza tieghu cuc, injorant u gifa.
Ihalli min jitnejjek bieh u, fuq kollox, jghidlu Grazzi!
Din il-mara wehida hadet daqs z-zieda ta 6 ministri f’daqqa bhala paga I.e. 13000euroX12months/52 weeks=3000euro per week. Tiswa daqs 6 ministri l-mara tal-onorevoli Mizzi.
Everything but the kitchen sink (and linen and pillows).
And the poor darling was hurt and cried for Ariadne Massa and Saviour Balzan in China because she was badmouthed by the mean and nasty people. What a bloodsucker.
Why is her in-laws’ home listed as her home address in Malta? Please don’t tell me we have a 40+ energy minister who has moved back home to mummy.
May I remind you of this:
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/09/exactly-what-is-mrs-konrad-mizzis-care-for-children-outfit/
Sai Mizzi got all tearful about her remuneration being discussed. No mention of how she misses her hubby. Her priorities are pretty clear.
Just because she is Chinese, this little shameless nonentity and Maltese taxpayers’ leech, believes she can impress us with her tears.
I tell her to go to hell. She will only impress the majority of Maltese, the cwiec.
If she really wants to impress us Maltese with brains, she first has to denounce, in no uncertain terms, her country’s human rights record.
Then and only then will she be considered as a human being in the true sense of the word.
Taghna Lkoll definition of wife:
Washing
Ironing
Shopping with a list as recommended by Anton B. Dougal
Fleecing the taxpayer
Etc.
WIVES:
Washing the PM’s dirty laundry
Ironing out agreements with blacklisted corporations
Vaporising Malta’s solid reputation locally and overseas
Enculturate the populace in the ways of Communism
Shopping for shady deals
Nurturing corruption
On reading up on the Chinese and lies one wonders whether our government is actually Chinese in disguise. This would explain so much, not least Sai Mizzi’s contract and the ensuing saga.
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/articles/keeping_face_in_china.shtml
‘Just know that, from a Chinese perspective, “lying” to either save or give face is not viewed as a lie.’
http://www.forbes.com/sites/raykwong/2013/02/17/study-finds-chinese-parents-lie-more-often-to-their-kids/
How much longer are we going to have to deal with all this?
The Labour Party is struggling to cope with a Malta that does, to a certain degree, expect the checks and balances to be applied and seeing as the Maltese have enjoyed more inclusive policies and institutions for so long they will not back down.
Even those who for the time being don’t think we need them because they “trust” the government are starting to suspect that their trust might have been betrayed.
They don’t necessarily believe it yet. At the moment they are in the “It can’t be true….can it?” stage of denial. They might even say with all confidence that there is nothing wrong happening and that the PL should show the proof to clear its name.
But the PL cannot, because the truth is that the Nationalists are right.
Just wait for it Edward. Something has to give, and it won’t be Muscat’s backers.
The department of contracts has, to all intents and purposes, been dissolved.
Muscat gave a lecture on jobs being what they are and the unemployed cannot expect to choose a career, just what’s available.
Government statements have taken to instruct the Leader of the Opposition to ‘keep his mouth shut’.
Apparently I’m paying for Mrs Mizzi Liang’s lingerie through my taxes.
Can the opposition do us all a favour and ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to table the contract of the current ambassador to China? I can’t imagine that the minister will refuse given that other ambassadors’ contracts have been published.
Oh dear Mrs Galiza, who really gives a toss how much she earns. Have you forgotten or were where you these past 30 years when the PN sucked our blood dry while they were making milloins ? ? Its hard to be in the opposition, get over it. I know you will not publish all this but even so, I dont really care either, we know what you are all made off. PN puppets on a string. Must be hard now that your “pimp” is no longer in power.
All you do is more and more damage to the party, once glorious and now sitting in the abyss, with no funds, no support, no leadership.
35,000 defeat (twice in one years) and still you haven’t learnt your lesson yet.
[Daphne – Dear Mr Forte, I am a newspaper columnist and blogger, and fairly successful at both, therefore no lessons to learn there at this point. I am not a politician, therefore no lessons to learn there either. You are very confused. I know that the liberal progressives of the Labour Party can’t understand the concept of free speech or of voicing one’s opinion without fear or favour, which is the essence of democracy and a basic human right: maybe that’s one lesson you have to learn.]
Mr Forte, I certainly give more than a toss about how much she earns.
I pay over 50000 euros in taxes every year and I have a very valid interest in where it all goes to.
You probably avoid paying any taxes whatsoever or, more probably, are on benefits.
Besides for the past thirty years you must have been living on Mars.
So please shut up.
30 years? Soon, the Labour elves will be saying that the PN has been in power for the past half-century.
Mr. Forte, perhaps what you need to understand is that what we give a toss about is how much we are paying her.
[Daphne – Actually, that’s hardly the point. The real issue is that a government minister’s wife (or husband) should not be given a government appointment of this nature.]
How strange to hear someone think that the PN was sucking our blood for the past 30 years.
It just goes to show what is terribly wrong in Malta: the PL and its supporters really do think that all PN supporters were getting paid millions to support the PN.
Don’t feed the trolls.
I thought Vladimir C Forte had come out after that rainbow party in St. George’s Square.
Gvern zibel u tal-misthija.
Hu go fik ja poplu Malti cuc u iblah.
Gvern tal-qamel u korruzjoni TOTALI.
Prim Ministru rikatat minn, u pupazz ta’, dawk tal-qalba.
If I were the Romanian wife of a Minister I too would get all tearful and demand to be sent off as some form of Ambassador to my motherland, instead of having to put up with the Maltese hamalli here. I would naturally settle for no less than the ‘peanut salary’ of Euro 74,000 per annum.
Sai Mizzi Liang offered to show us her FS3 , and our prime minister pubblished her May salary payslip.
She was instructed to say “I earn €3,000 something” when she earns €3,700 as a salary.
We should be thankfull to Marlene Farrugia for her article in The Malta Independent.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-07-14/opinions/cow-dilemma-5832179712/
I think Joseph Muscat avoided a showdown in parliament by one of his own “Partit Magħqud” MP’s, by publishing her contract leaving others to calculate Ms Mizzi’s earnings.
I think she is already in breach of clause 14.
I agree.
“14. Standard of dress and personal appearance
The Employee agrees to maintain a high standard of dress and personal appearance compatible with the working environment in which she (shouldn’t that be “the”?) duties as carried out and with the post occupied.”
Is this the way to dress up for a business interview?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/06/or-maybe-there-hasnt-been-a-sighting/
Text in red box:
The Employee agrees to maintain a high standard of dress and personal appearance compatible with the working environment in which she (shouldn’t that be “the”?) duties as carried out and with the post occupied.”
I agree that the whole situation is scandalous, but can we please stop saying Ms. Konrad Mizzi?
She is a person, and she has a name. It’s disgusting to see someone reduced to being X’s husband/wife, to the extent that we can’t even speak her name, whatever the circumstances.
‘Konrad Mizzi’s wife’, ‘The minister’s wife’ is the appropriate way of referencing her, since it’s her relationship with the minister that gives this context.
Writing Ms. Konrad Mizzi not only re-enforces the fact that some Maltese are unable to express themselves properly, but is also testament to the demeaning of married women in our society.
[Daphne – The only reason Mrs Konrad Mizzi was put on the state payroll in that capacity is because she is Mrs Konrad Mizzi, the government minister’s wife. If she were not Mrs Konrad Mizzi she would have had to take a more low-profile role as the obvious beard for Shiv Nair that she really is.]
No wonder they were not eager to publish her contract. I wonder now what triggered them off to publish it. Maybe Konrad Mizzi is being shown the way out, before the failure of the power station materialises?
He’s taken to pilot holes lately.
Why is Document D not attached to Sai Mizzi Lang’s contract? This should cover the extent of her services and let us know what she is being remunerated for.
Did you see how super attentive they were in drawing up her contract? They made it a point not to throw in a clock, at all cost. Otherwise that would be a clear case of korruzzjoni. Eur 13,326 a month is ok then.
The appointment of the minister’s wife prompts only the following questions.
1. What exactly are Mrs Mizzi’s qualifications?
2. Is she qualified for the job she has been given?
3. Exactly what is the job, anyway?
4. How do they know she is the best qualified when nobody else was interviewed or given the chance to apply?
5. Doesn’t it seem that the job is made for her, rather than she made for the job?
6. Why do we have Mrs Mizzi if we have an ambassador (who also speaks fluent Chinese and understands the culture)?
Blacklisted Shiv Nair needs to have someone present whenever China formally cuts a deal with Muscat.
He is officially no longer Muscat’s consultant so he can’t be there in person.
Oh, so that’s what Muscat had meant by Malta taghna lkoll.
Prior to the election the MLP kept on banging on about friends of friends and meritocracy etc.. etc..
They were partially right, but this situation was the result of almost 25 years of uninterrupted Nationalist governments.
In just over one year the MLP are much worse than the PN were after 25 years.
The worrying thing is that for the Maltese it’s OK that the MLP is doing this, ghax imsieken illum 25 sena jistennew.
Well, look at how they’ve changed their stand on immigration.
The publication of Sai MIzzi’s employment contract countersigned by Malta Enterprise should be sufficient reason not to compare this to an Ambassador’s contract, which is a contract signed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . The more they try to justify what happened the deeper they dig themselves into that proverbial hole.
The fact that Sai MIzzi, a minister’s wife was the beneficiary of this special treatment is wrong and nothing can justify that!
Friends of friends, wives of ministers, not to mention girlfriends and partners. Its suddenly all become acceptable.
What a shame
Document C
Conflict of Interest, Section 8 – “a situation in which a public employee has a private or personal interest sufficient to influence or appear to influence the objective exercise of his or her official duties.”
Doesn’t being married to a government minister, responsible for Energy, constitute a conflict of interest when involved in negotiating Energy Infrastructure contracts in China?