Oliver Scicluna accepted to join the Labour Party’s parliamentary backbench because he wants to address its shortcomings, the newly co-opted MP said.
“Not everything is perfect, if it was I wouldn’t have joined. My plan is to help address those imperfections,” Scicluna said on TVM’s Xtra on Thursday night.
The former disability rights commissioner was co-opted to parliament on Monday after the resignation of Gavin Gulia.
It was Prime Minister Robert Abela who asked Scicluna to join the PL parliamentary group in a controversial move that saw Gulia resigning his seat seconds after being sworn in as an MP.
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Speedy Gulia (aka The fastest resignation in the West ).
Speedy Gulia has decided to apply his Superhero skills to the one area that arguably needs them least. Why? Is it because – as implied by the Opposition’s doubts – Robert Abela wanted someone else in his Parliamentary group, at this particular time…
Raphael Vassallo
19 January 2021, 7:52am
Gavin Gulia
And to think that people still complain about the lack of a resignation culture in this country (and, worse still, to think that I myself was one of them, until fairly recently…)
I don’t know. Looking back, it’s almost as though we were talking about a different country altogether. Remember? That place we all once lived in: where public officials would invariably cling onto their positions like limpets, for years (if not decades) at a stretch… to the point where they got so firmly encrusted, you couldn’t pry them off with a crowbar if you spent an entire lifetime trying…
The party-owned broadcasting media
It’s about time the PN starts adopting a social media strategy to balance that of the Labour party
Michael Falzon
19 January 2021, 7:53am
The situation in Malta with political parties owning their own broadcasting media – radio and television stations – is probably unique in liberal democracies all over the world.
The reason why this is so is simply the result of the reaction to the abuse of public broadcasting ever since the Mintoff regime nationalised the only licensed – but privately owned – radio and television stations. Subsequently, public broadcasting became simply the voice of the party in power with the Opposition’s voice being heard only during the political broadcasts organised by the Broadcasting Authority. Today, these are organised only during general election campaigns and not regularly every year as they used to be.
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