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[WATCH] New government to have humane face - Gonzi
PN leader Lawrence Gonzi says new PN government would have a more humane face and improve its relationship with citizens.
4 March 2013, 12:00am
Jurgen Balzan
Jurgen Balzan
2 min read
A new PN government would have a more humane face, PN leader Lawrence Gonzi said this morning as he visited hawkers in Valletta.
"It is clear that we need to fine tune the way government, from top to bottom, including the Prime Minister, chairmen and heads of departments, treats consumers, individuals and citizens which deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. The government has a duty to be accountable whether the answer is yes and even more so if the answer is no."
He added that if elected, a new PN government would make a quality leap in its relationship with citizens and ensure that it is "really humane" and persons should not be treated like files.
He added that this would benefit everybody, especially the business community.
In a brief address after visiting the open air market and the old Valletta Market building in Merchants Street, Gonzi said that Labour has yet to come forward with its plans on job creation, despite blowing its trumpets on its "roadmap."
Gonzi refused to answer questions on finance minister Tonio Fenech's allegations against Joe Cordina, the former Labour financial administrator after oli trader and state witness George Farrugia admitted in court that Cordina's company played no role in the commissions-for-oil scandal.
However, the PN leader said: "I am not the court, its up to the court to decide who is credible and who is not. Labour must learn that the court's judgement must be accepted because our courts decide who is saying the truth and who is not."
Asked whether all ministers had returned the money after the 2008 wage increase was reversed, Gonzi said: "I have nothing to add to what was said in official replies, everybody is refunding the money, everybody refunded the money."
Mentioning a number of measures undertaken by his government in the last five years, such as micro-invest schemes and tax credits to small businesses, Gonzi insisted that these initiatives would be strengthened and expanded by a new PN government.
Jurgen Balzan was a MaltaToday reported from 2011 to 2017.
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'A new PN government would have a more humane face,' said PN leader Gonzi. AT LAST. GonziPN has admitted that in these past years he and his clique have not had a humane enough face. No wonder we now find ourselves in this mess.
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Am sorry to say this is much too late in the day.
The horse has already bolted.
Now we are admitting to the mistakes.
GonziPN, I PRAY, WILL BE HISTORY, AND A FAILED ABBERATION IN A POLITICAL PARTY AND OF POLITICAL HISTORY.
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Goes to prove it did not have one for the last 8 years since gonzi became leader of gonzipn and PM of Malta
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...New government to have humane face - Gonzi... I simply DON'T BELIEVE, AND SIMPLY DON'T TRUST YOU , YOUR GOVERNMENT AND YOUR PARTY. Il-Malti jghid "Hanzir taqtalu denbu hanzin jibqa"
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Shouldn't that be the norm for any government or for any parliamentarian. This is admitting that his government was too aloof, and treated us poor citizens with disrespect!!!
That a little too late now Mr Gonzi.
My only wish is that you and your ministers are not even elected to Parliament as all the nation should turn its face from you lot and choose other Nationalist MPs to represent the Nationalist Party in parliament. I know that this wouldn't happen as die hards remain die hards and vote with their loyalty and not with their minds!!!!!!!
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Not yours or Simon's then Dr. Gonzi for sure!
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'New governmnet will have a human face' Dr Gonzi. Mela ma kellux human face f'dawn l-ahhar 5 snin? Why should we risk that we wont get more of the same?
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Too late Gonz. X'hin trid naraw kemm il-darba il-Gvern tieghek ma obdiex sentenzi tal-Qrati u kemm il-darba gie injorat l-Ombudsman li htart int stess. Wara kollox dawn ma huma xejn hdejn li tlabt l-opinjoni tal-poplu Malti f'referendum, tahielek mhux kif xtaqt int ghax forsi int maqtugh minn man-nies, u xorta ivvutajt kontra r-rieda tal-poplu fil-Parlament.
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The new Parliament under GONZIPN should elect Austin Gatt as the new President of Malta - the embodiment of the humane face described by Lawrence Gonzi
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We have got a very good inkling of how a humane face looks like. It has to be painted blue, have the capability of lying like hell, be prepared to sacrifice friend and foe for its survival, be responsive to fat cheques for millions of euros without strings attached, be responsive to massive corruption at international level, be able to accept gifts from admiring housewives, and be committed to humiliate, discriminate against, and destroy all those whose faces are painted red. A humane face would never accept Malta for the Maltese but only Malta for blue-faced boys.
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A new PN government would have a more humane face?
NOWWWWW
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A new PN government would have a more humane face?
NOWWWWW
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Too late now, besides you are not credible any more.
