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Muscat to retain Marlene Bonnici as ambassador to the EU
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat reassures workers at Malta’s representation office in Brussels that the Labour government was ‘ready to work with everyone’.
14 March 2013, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced his decision to retain Marlene Bonnici as Malta's permanent representative to the European Union during a visit he made at Malta House in Brussels.
He was very frank with the workers, telling them he knew that there could be some workers who might not feel comfortable working with a Labour administration, but reassured that he still "trusted" them.
"We are ready to work with everyone," Muscat said, adding that he understood that some of the workers could be "apprehensive".
"But our wish is that you continue, business as usually, and a new government is ready to work with everyone."
Muscat added that what he expected from them was "total unconditional loyalty, not to me but towards the government, as representative of the Maltese people".
The new Prime Minister said that for those who still felt uncomfortable working under the new Labour administration, "other solutions can be found".
"But I do trust you and I expect you to give your 110%. This is my message... loud and clear and I hope we can work together," he added.
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Marlene is ambitious and professional!
Good decision!
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Dear Justice, Because she is capable, because Lawrence Gonzi practiced Malta Tghana Lkoll without flashing the slogan and last but not least because she is a labourite so Joseph can rest assured of her support also same as she supported the former PM. Which brings me to another point and that is that an employee of the state like Marlene will give his/her maximum of their ability irrispective of who is in government........and this also goes for RCC if he was still there.
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Hope she is training others who can replace her if anything happens to her.
Finally, those who blunder, not up to standard, or caught trying to put spokes in Government machinery should be replaced.
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Dear Justice, Because she is capable, because Lawrence Gonzi practiced Malta Tghana Lkoll without flashing the slogan and last but not least because she is a labourite so Joseph can rest assured of her support also same as she supported the former PM. Which brings me to another point and that is that an employee of the state like Marlene will give his/her maximum of their ability irrispective of who is in government........and this also goes for RCC if he was still there.
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Dear Justice, Because she is capable, because Lawrence Gonzi practiced Malta Tghana Lkoll without flashing the slogan and last but not least because she is a labourite so Joseph can rest assured of her support also same as she supported the former PM. Which brings me to another point and that is that an employee of the state like Marlene will give his/her maximum of their ability irrispective of who is in government........and this also goes for RCC if he was still there.
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I have serious doubts how a GONZIPN appointee to replace RCC (sic) can ever be loyal to the new Government, along with most of the staff of Malta House , all GONZIPN appointees. One cannot make the same mistake as Alfed Sant who believed that he could win their loyalty and they stabbed him in the back. If the PL programme, tight for schedule, is to proceed at full course one must have absolute loyalty - I find it hard to believe that these people can deliver.
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The key word is Work Together. It also mean Honesty and Loyalty.
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There was no doubt that the PM will retain Marlene Bonnici, both because she delivers and also because she's a labourite.
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For he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us. Well if Marlene was comfortable working with the former P.M. whom she did not support politically why shouldn't she feel comfortable with the P.M. she politically supports?
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For he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us. Well if Marlene was comfortable working with the former P.M. whom she did not support politically why shouldn't she feel comfortable with the P.M. she politically supports?
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Can Mario DeMarco point one appointment he has made of an individual who was not a hardliner PN? He was happy to appoint officers in top positions even within his secretariate who did not even possess secondary education. But as long as he was blue eyed, it did not matter!
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The new Prime Minister said that for those who still felt uncomfortable working under the new Labour administration, "other solutions can be found".... You can't force one to work with you but then one isn't expected to keep back stabbers or bums on payrolls paid by the people's taxes.
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Good move, PM Joseph. Whoever shows, not merely by words but by actions, that he/she is ready to work loyally for Malta should be retained in his/her post. This should serve as a lesson to all those Permanent Secretaries and other top civil servants who think they would be retained even if they blundered or resorted to some funny business.
