Why is this in a tiny box at the bottom of page 8?

Published: December 17, 2014 at 10:15am

I wouldn’t say it’s some kind of deliberate attempt at fudging the issue – after all, Times of Malta is running quite a big story about the Chinese non-contract.

But it really is an inappropriate way to deal with the news that Baku Joseph signed a contract with SOCAR in, well, Baku, and then felt he had to make a point of saying that there was no political interference involved in the tender adjudication process when SOCAR won the contract for “the power-purchase agreement for the new gas-fired plant”.

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8 Comments Comment

  1. Sun Tzu says:

    Stressing that there had been no political interference sounds like Judas asking, “Is it I?”

    • ciccio says:

      Of course there had been no political interference. And the Presidental elections in Azerbaijan were ‘free and fair’ too.

      • gaetano pace says:

        Oh I see. Muscat had the courage to say that in Azerbaijan. Had he said it here in Parliament, Simon Busuttil would have made a shambles of him for the umpteenth time.

  2. Jozef says:

    Time to go back to every newspaper article to date and replace Electrogas with SOCAR.

  3. ciccio says:

    Why is this on page 8?

    Maybe Times of Malta is protesting because none of its ace journalists were able to taste what Baku duck is like on this visit? I don’t think so.

    News of relations with the Azeri dictatorship will do no good to the progressive and liberal image of the Taghna Lkoll Movement, so it’s better if it is hidden in a little corner.

    We’re almost in the territory of a cover-up by the media now.

  4. michael seychell says:

    Joseph Muscat built his image in the M.L.P. on lies, and he continued to lie when he became Prime Minister.

    He is now in a position to keep on lying continuously to cover his previous lies.

    • Makjavel says:

      Of course he did, if all the Labour executive and supporters are naive and will believe anything.
      Eddy Privitera is the perfect example.

  5. Spock says:

    Tghid qalilhom biex jaghtuna 12 points fil – Eurovision ?

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