What’s a cheap-boutique owner doing at this meeting with the Foreign Minister? Turns out he’s the Economy Minister’s chief of staff.
The Foreign Minister (George Vella), accompanied by the Minister for the Economy (Chris Cardona) and the Justice, Police, Army and Broadcasting Minister (Manuel Mallia) met a delegation from the Malta-Libya Chamber of Commerce today.
The aim was to see how commercial relations with Libya could be improved – you know, because George Vella and Chris Cardona can be really helpful on that. Mallia the Justice, Police, Army and Broadcasting Minister was there, or so we gather, to see how visas could be expedited to make life easier.
Anyway, this is about the man sitting next to the Justice, Police, Army and Broadcasting Minister. What is he doing there? It turns out that he is chief of staff to the Minister for the Economy, having been given this job in the Economy Ministry secretariat after serving Chris Cardona so well as his canvasser/galoppin.
He is a certain Mario Azzopardi who owns a cheap and tacky shop called Pardi, which sells low-quality clothes, next to the Birkirkara Labour Party Club in Mannarino Road, among other similar boutiques.
Amazing how all these types have freeloaded straight into jobs in the private secretariats of government ministers. How does he qualify as chief of staff to a cabinet minister by selling cheap polyester trousers in Birkirkara?
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What is even worse is the standing of this Malta-Libya CoC. Very low standing with the present government in Libya at present. Not good news for Libyans or the Maltese at all.
High-salaried consultant designate to Chris Cardona, perhaps?
We have a cheap polyester minister of the economy (“inhallukom tahdmu”, “l-ekonomija tikber weheda”) so I’d say the chief of staff is the right man for the job.
Rozz tal-prima klassi. Hefu Bar client. Jaqq, b’xiex tghabbejna.
The Hefu Bar does the most magnificent ftira biz-zejt.
Fine. And that’s where Mario Azzopardi should stay.
Is this Mario Azzopardi the same person who used to annoy me and every member of my family with sms re Labour activities before and during election days?
Yes. If you still have the message, report them to the Data Protection Commissioner.
Maybe he was the one who sold that tacky red polyester shirt that Manwel Mallia was wearing in that photo with Marlene Mizzi
He’s going to start dressing the Prime Minister and the rest of the cabinet.
What does the minister of police and the army have to do with a Chamber of Commerce?
Scruples too …
An old GhSZ hack …
They think that because they wear a suit, they have reached the height of their career and think of themselves as ‘waslu’.
These people are not being forgotten – they are getting their reward – and rightly so.
Who is the short man, wearing specs, sitting next to Cardona?
Leonard Sacco
Leonard Sacco, son of the ‘infamous’ Remig Sacco. He budget office director under the previous government, but what is he doing there now?
I’ve heard he’s part of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretariat.
Mela Chris, vera meritocracy bil-provi, kif kont tghid int ezatt fil-home visits. Mur obsor ghalik. Niftahar li jien ma kontx wiehed li blajt il-lixka, u ma ivvotajtx lill-MOVIMENT.
Min kif kont titkellem, kont nistenna ahjar minn ghandhek. Kont naghmlek politiku moderat, imma taht dak il-wicc angeliku hemm ragel iehor. Nerga nghidlek, proset tassew tal-meritokrazija li int u shabek qed turu.
He is the link between Armani and Me Shall.
Ejja ilkoll najtu Malta taghhom biss.
Mario Azzopardi owns more than one ” cheap and tacky shop” as you dear Ms Galizia called them. I believe that he opened business many years ago and is still doing business in Hamrun and Birkirkara. In my opinion this makes him a very successful businessman.
I think that this article is a waste of time since by your argument Ms Galizia, what was Edward Vassallo doing in parliament for all these years? Weren’t the market stalls more fascinating to him?
thanks