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Montebello’s resignation ‘proof of bad choices’ –PN
Opposition demands ‘real reason’ behind resignation.
27 June 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
Brian Montebello.
The resignation of permanent secretary for sustainable development, the environment and climate change, Brian Montebello, indicates that Labour's choices of permanent secretaries have been bad ones, according to the Nationalist Party.
The Opposition made reference to the fact that when elected, the Labour government removed a number of permanent secretaries and "replaced them with people close to the party."
The Nationalist Party demanded to know the "real reason" behind the resignation.
PN also asked whether it was true that Minister Leo Brincat and ministerial officials were frustrated with Montebello's work, and whether there were other ministers who were disappointed by the work being done by their permanent secretaries.
"This also confirms that the government has not been appointing people on the basis of meritocracy," according to the PN.
Montebello announced his resignation yesterday. Attempts to contact the environment ministry have so far been futile; however, according to government sources, Montebello tendered his resignation for personal reasons.
Montebello was one of the 11 new permanent secretaries appointed by the new Labour government upon its election.
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So the PN are DEMANDING....ha ha ha....Dear Simon, the people have been demanding for the resignation of Gonzi PN for the last 15 months, and the klikka ignored one and all.......So the PN is DEMANDING....HO.HO, HO
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Even a secretary to a minister's job is very stressful; all day listening to complaints and they can never say a day's work is finished because as they go home they are bombarded with telephone calls. One of them told me that once together with his wife went swimming and before they could touch the water a bikini clad woman approached him to ask why the scavenger had not been to their street! Here I am referring to a simple secretary , let alone a permanent secretar!
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The PN is at its best when it foments unrest, tixwiex, and half truths. Why should not Montebello resign for personal reasons? Do we have the right to know of such reasons which could be health related? Does the PN have the right to cause further distress to an individual just to attempt to get some meagre political mileage.? No the PN is just at its old tricks again and they never never learn as long as they have the same old clique running the party and puppeteering its leader. What wrong has the PL in Government done in placing Montebello as PS and later he resigned for personal reasons? Does this reflect badly on meritocracy.? Even if he resigned, for arguments sake, because of some conflict with the Minister, who elected who at the last election? So who should give the direction as to the way the Ministry and the Departments falling under it? Surely not the PN who wreaked havoc in our environment over the last 25 years. Their meritocracy was only based on having blue blood for 4 or more generations - more like aristocracy than meritocracy!!!!!
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"Opposition demands ‘real reason’ behind resignation" ...... why doe the opposition keeps making a fool of itself. It is a very simple answer. PL is in government and governs how it seems fit then let the people judge. Grow up you pathetic lot.
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For those who have short memory, or had not yet been born and now expect to be experts on the subject, or for those who speak without knowing what went around them in the Civil Service, it is a fact that when the first Permanent Secretaries were appointed in 1993, all of them were declared PN supporters, all were yes-men, and few had the intellect let alone the aptitude to lead a Ministry. So please, you PN apologists, shut up check your Party's history before you open your trap.
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What did the PN have to say about ex Ind. Candidate Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Maverick Franco Debono, where they "bad choices" ?
The PN has become a Party of Stand-up Commedians ..... and utterly CHILDISH and PATHETHIC!
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Any body in his right frame of mind would hasard a guess that former Perm Sec Chris Ciantar was not a political appointement ?
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If the PN want to know why? It's very easy why don't you ask Mr.Montebllo personal.
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Personally I consider this as positive proof that no one will be allowed to establish deep roots in a ministry independent of performance, suitability, personal circumstances, commitment, competence or lack of it, or lack of chemistry with the minister. This was one of the fundamental faults of the PN administration where a small clique rooted itself deeply into the top echelons of gov and did not allow alternative talent or merit to flourish.
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Dawn l-affarijiet graw fin 1987 that Edward Fenech Adami. La ma kontx tal politika taghhom int int bsaten fir roti u ma tigix afdatt. Allura kif dawn in Nazzjonalisti qedin jippretendu lin-Nazzjonalisti la ma jaqblux mal-politika tal-Gvern prezenti (ghaliex kieku ivvutaw ghalih) jibqaw imexxu huma. "Critical /important position shouldn't be held by political opponents) veru EB,NG,VSG,u MP?". Issa taghna ikoll u qisna borma kawlata!
