'Tony Zarb should resign' - Busuttil

Healthcare, international summitry and the GWU were discussed by Simon Busuttil at an event held in Zebbug. Busuttil was filling in for the PM who is currently in Brussels.

7 February 2013, 12:00am
by Jacob Borg

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Simon Busuttil.

Simon Busuttil was left to pick up the thread on healthcare as the PM is currently attending a summit in Brussels in order to thrash out a deal on the EU's 2014-2020 budget.

"The PN is a respected member in the EU, and it manages to get results," Busuttil said.

"If on the 9 March we get a PL government, that government will have to convince the EU that they are true Europeans and believe in the project. This will be the first obstacle that the PL will have," Busuttil warned.

Busuttil referred to the General Workers' Union cosy relationship with the Labour Party. He read out verbatim the transcript of the audio tape originally published yesterday.

"Here is the proof of corruption and lack of seriousness. The head of the GWU should bear responsibility for his statement and resign. The GWU prefers to safeguard the interests of others rather than those of its own workers," Busuttil said.

Busuttil promised that a PN government would keep healthcare free for all. He argued that the PN administration has changed the perception that private hospitals are superior to public ones.

"The Labour Party lied to you. Healthcare has remained and shall remain free for all. We can afford to send people to be treated for free because this government has managed peoples' taxes well. The PL is a populist Party that is incapable of taking on serious responsibility," Busuttil said.

Busuttil explained that research on diabetes is currently fragmented, and the EU is currently working on consolidation.

"Diabetes affects 10% of the population. I do not want anyone suffering from diabetes in Malta in any way feeling like they are receiving an inferior service."

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Maltese , If word are taken out of context you can make God looks like the devel . For example . If you take cpecific phrases or sentences out of the whole text or story , you can built a different story from this which can sound completely different from the original text . I strongly beleve that in this case , this was clearly done . Can't you see and hear that the whole thing was edited ?

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SIMON BUSUTTIL SHOULD SEE WHETHER THE UHM WITH ITS EX-LEADER NOW JOINING THE PN RANKS OF CANDIDATES HAS BEEN BETRAYING THE TRUST OF ITS MEMBERS WITH ITS DIRECT UNION WITH THE PN. THAT IS MORE WORRYING THAN A CAREFULLY DOCTORED PRIVATE CONVERSATION WHICH WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND PROPAGATED ILLEGALLY BY THE PN. AS A LAWYER HE SHOULD KNOW THAT ALL THIS IS AGAINST DATA PROTECTION AND DOCTORING DATA IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE.

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Simon Busuttil! Elected Member of the European Parliament and Deputy Leader of GonziPN. The PN supporters were made to believe that you were the answer to all their prayers and save this party from its tangled web of collusion, corruption, commissions and lies. So far you have disappointed every electorate voter who will cast their vote on March 9th., 2013 for the following reasons. 1Your first debate with Anglu Farrugia was a complete wash out because all the electorate saw and heard were hollow political propaganda and you ended up defending your incompetent opponent after his resignation. 2You have now turned your snipes at Tony Zarb because of some secretly recorded phrase where he claimed PL preferential treatment. Have you forgotten that Gejtu Vella is contesting on the PN ticket? 3. Resignations should be tendered when fiascos in administrative management are discovered that expose hushed up increases of ministerial salaries or commissions on government projects because of preferential treatments by cabinet in choosing the wrong Power Station and its Energy contracts. Simon the disappointment is already showing and you are starting to resemble an inflated balloon that by the time of the election date would have lost all of its air. Substance my friend is what the Maltese electorate expected from you and so far you have limited yourself to being entangled in banal campaigning This is a bad reflection of what you would do when sitting in the Maltese parliament.

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'"The PN is a respected member state in the EU, and it manages to get results," Busuttil said.' Is this correct? It's unbelievable. The PN and its members have always believed themselves to be born to rule but to become the MEMBER STATE IN THE EU is now too much.

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Simon, you are a good example of what it takes to be a bloody hypocrite yourself!! WHY DON'T YOU RESIGN FOR UTTERING RACIST AND CLASS-PHOBIC COMMENTS LIKE: GHAX INT GHANDEK WICC TA' NAZZJONALISTA. Kont nghidlek jien x'wicc ghandek int! Ara veru il-qahba milli jkollha ttik! Jekk int tant cert illi se tkun VPM (alla hares), ghax ma trrizenjax int mill-EU!

Maureen Attard •

I think that this journal is more a labourite and all comments are coming from labourites. That's why I don't believe survays by this site.

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Is it a misprint or did Simon actually say that "the PN is a respected member state in the EU"? For his sake, I hope it was a typo and does not confirm the complete blurring of borders between party and government that the PN has now been in for decades. And with all due respect to Simon, if he is only competent to speak about the PN's accounts since he became deputy leader 2 months ago, what authority does he have to speak about anything else that happened in Malta before that time?

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The whole point is that in the recording Tony Zarb is clearly saying that the GWU will help one in winning tnders - especially if Labour is in government. It is only close-minded labourites who are not seeing this.

Joseph Pellicano •

simple simon, ghajar tibda tipprepara biex tirrizenja int wara id 9 ta marzu bil frjjeg li qed taghmel.

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LI kieku wiehed ma jafx sa fejn jistgħu jaslu tal-partit Nazzjonalista , wieħed jista jemmen dak li qalu li qal Tony Zarb , imma l-istorja tagħllimna li dan il-partit lest li jirrikorri għall kollox u b'kull mezz qarrieq biex jipprova jerġa jirbaħ il-poter . Partit tal-ġuramenti foloz bħall ta' TERRINU . Partit korrott kien ,għadu u jibqa . Ippubblikaw it-test kollu biex kullhadd ikun jista jiġġudika jekk dak li qal Tony Zarb kienx meħud barra mill-kuntest tiegħu .

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Simon is brainwashed about the EU. What about his Maltese identity? So now Simon Busuttil has proved that during the MIC days he was partial and that he also had one objective in mind - to go to Brussels. He is here in Malta just because he wants to prove himself to be better than Joseph Muscat. Sorry Simon but you cannot hide it.

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Tony Zarb will resign when half the Cabinet, including Gonzi, admit to their involvement in the scandals that have rocked the Island since 2004.

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Why hasn't your party media released the whole tape yet, Sur Busuttil?

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Thank God that Dr. Simon has a new line to practise and add to his now well rehearsed litany of why PN are more credible than PL. Today its Tony Zarb under the hammer, and so it will be for the next couple of days, until the game players give him a new line to learn by heart. Whenever this PN 's future leader is caught of guard and is more spontaneous in his statements he continues to prove what type of 'revelation' he is turning out to be! I know comparisions are odious, but I cannot help observe how even when Dr. Gonzi is lying he manages to come across as credible whilst even when Dr. Simon is saying the truth he comes across as less and less convincing. This burden sharing of committments between these 2 is not working out in the PN s favour, polls are proving it.