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Updated | Franco Debono’s appointment is ‘divisive’ – PN
PN hits out at appointment of former Nationalist dissenter Franco Debono as Commissioner for Law.
24 March 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
Adds Labour's reaction at 1:22pm
Franco Debono's appointment as Commissioner for Law and coordinator of the Constitutional reform convention "does not auger well" and is divisive, the Nationalist Party said.
In a statement issued on Sunday morning, the PN said the appointment "does not auger well for such an important process which needs to be led with serenity and seriousness."
The PN added that political good judgment demands that such an important process demanded efforts to seek national consensus and "unity."
"Instead, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has purposely, opted to take a divisive decision intended to insult the Opposition for its own partisan interests," the PN said.
Yesterday, the Labour government announced Debono's appointment was announced in a statement issued by the Department of Information.
The government said Debono will be responsible of the consolidation and fine-tuning of laws.
The Commissioner for Law's office was established according to the 1980 Act on the Revision of Statutory Laws. According to the government, Debono's role will be vast but will ensure better and more correct legislation.
The law also provides the Commissioner to carry out other specific duties granted to him by the government. To this aim, Debono was given the role to be responsible of coordinating the Constitutional Convention.
Debono's first job will be to prepare the terms of reference for the Constitutional Convention.
In its reaction, Labour said the PN had not learn from its past errors which led to the PN's current state of affairs.
"The lesson learnt from GonziPN's failure is that everybody's potential should be utilised. This is what the new government is and will keep doing," Labour said.
Labour added that PN's discontent over Debono's appointment jarred with his previous appointment as chairman of the committee for the codification of laws under the PN administration.
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I cannot see how the PN can judge Franco Debono's appointment, sinse they were not even capable to make a good election campaign. They are just incapable of makeing good judgments
Emmanuel Mallia •
Ah ! Now Franco is becoming relevant !
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FD's appointment is well merited and makes sense. The PL has started out very well and is showing what meritocracy really is! It is time for change! Old systems that delivered little should be scrapped and it makes perfect sense to appoint persons on their potential and capabilities rather than the old style of politics that the Pn seem to want to keep!
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Jekk dak li dejjem qal Franco Debono iwasslu biex isir fil-prattika l-Gvern ikun ghamel akkwist u juri wkoll li Franco kellu ragun jew??????
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I wish Dr Franco Debono good luck in his new appointment which in my opinion is very well deserved and in which, his expertise in the compiling of the necessary global amendments to our fractional legislation, will be of great asset to the Country. The fact that he is really resuming his role which he occupied under the previous legislature, but from which he was ignored, shows the magnanimous gesture of good will to all those who declare that they are willing to work with this Movement despite their political allegiances.
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class goo like this , First you with PN then after la la with Labour and оppp you in the government with a salary 24000, super! or for example if person 1-2 years in party and оPP you are a minister. Very good , and other deputies more than 10-15 years works for party, help to hundred people and they are overboard,
This is respect of Muscat for labour people?
I voted for PL but in one month I noticed that same deputies first offers stars from the sky and now switch off the phones
I am very disappointed, I talk with same people and many start be very angry.
Muscat doing mistake after mistake. And this only beginning .
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This declaration confirms that the corrupt clique is still in power within the PN. The PN should publicly apologize to Franco Debono because he did his best to show them the right way to follow and it is very probable that if the PN paid heed their defeat would not have been so humiliating.
Emmanuel Mallia •
For Gonzi, Franco is relevant now. Gonzi never change ! He has always treated the man in the street (and the intellectuals ) as chicken heads.
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appointed commissioner of law and he is still working as a lawyer.....NONSENSE. persons working on the new constitution MUST be out of politics.
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Oh!!! What hypocrites these PN people are. When was ever national consensus sought during their years of administration. After all Dr Franco Debono sat on their benches only a while ago and he never ever said that he turned Labourite or recant his Nationalist belief.
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AND what have the P.N. been these last years, even up to the last day of the Electoral campaign.....WRAPPING and all ?
Who within the P.N. cast the first stone and who is behind this statement?
Just who is the P.N. that has issued such a statement?
Emmanuel Mallia •
Now, you do not like him here too !!!!!!!!!!!!
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One can understand that at the political level the PN is angry because one of those MPs who upset their outdated style of government based on an exclusive inner clique did not disappear into oblivion. Let us however remember that LG kept FD as his PA entrusted with law reform until the dissolution of parliament. Nor has LG criticized the technical and legal aspect of his reform work. So in a sense this appointment can be seen as a ensuring continuity in the prioritized area of law reform.
Igor P. Shuvalov •
It seems that the Nationalist Party through a Nationalist Government has got so used to appoint whoever they fancied to important post, that they are still running with the idea that a Labour Government should appoint people to appease the Nationalist Party.
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Maybe Gonzipn would have preferred Lawrence Gonzi or Carm Mifsud Bonnici for this role........hehehe
