Well, that’s put a rocket through the delaying tactics
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February 11, 2014 at 9:53pm
The Commission for the Administration of Justice, probably not taking kindly to the delaying tactics being used by the Speaker of the House and the Prime Minister, has written to that same Speaker of the House to say that
the decision it had taken in the impeachment motion filed in 2012 against Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco still applies to the impeachment motion presented last week by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. (Times of Malta, this evening)
This is after both the Speaker and the prime minister said that the whole process would have to begin from scratch because Lawrence Gonzi, who brought the impeachment motion, is no longer in the House.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140211/local/justice-commission-says-its-decision-on-judge-farrugia-sacco-is-unchanged.506407#.UvqN7rCPIdU
So the motion isn’t dead.
That puts the ball back in Dr Muscat’s court. Let’s see now how honest he is about the impeachment motion.
It should be obvious… but nowadays you cannot take anything for granted.
The government has acted on the Speaker’s ruling, based in legal advice by a constitutional expert that the former motion is no longer valid, and immediately presented a new motion. Where’s the delay?
[Daphne – Thanks to the Commission’s prompt communication and refusal to play ball, there should be none. The Speaker and the prime minister were clearly banking on the Commission starting its interview and investigation process from scratch, in a literal-minded way.]
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-11/news/beppe-fenech-adami-calls-for-removal-of-farrugia-sacco-magistrate-peralta-3931635712/
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-11/news/justice-commission-says-impeachmentmotion-decision-on-farrugia-sacco-still-applies-3931111425/
Touche’.
Wasn’t it Muscat who vouched he’d give the commission sharper instruments?
How times change, here he is, forcing the commission to an unprecedented move to combat the anti-politica he once warned against.
There will come a time when he’ll casually remark that all his sanctimonius talk prior to the election was just a little joke.
It sure applies to his cancer factory, why, he approved heavy fuel oil supply for another two years.
Call it the Maltese job.
The sooner the PN concentrate on the alternative the better, even because Muscat’s stuck in his own ruts to an extent that Grima and every red’s calling for a reshuffle to save his skin.
Clear sign there’s growing dissent in the party.
Perhaps the problem is Muscat himself. Salesmen make terrible project managers, either in a permanent state of panic or intent on the small print to find a way out.
What they never manage, is to assume responsibility for the impossible promises made.
Kif ghandu l-wicc il-Gvern ikompli jaqbez ghal Farrugia Sacco.