PN’s ‘sticker album’ contains Gonzi administration’s appointees
Several names in the PN's sticker album that mocked Labour appointments, included names that had served the Gonzi administration before 2004, Illum newspaper reports
25 May 2014, 8:00am
James J. Piscopo
James J. Piscopo
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The Nationalist Party's sticker album claiming that 200 appointees in the Labour administration were benefiting from exorbitant perks, included several appointees from the Gonzi administration.
Lawyers Yana and Simon Micallef Stafrace, the latter a Labour candidate, were said to be benefiting from tax-funded government largesse, according to the PN, when the children of former MP Joe Micallef Stafrace were already fulfilling this same role under a Nationalist administration, since 2012.
Former GWU deputy secretary-general Michael Parnis, who sits on the Employment Relations Board, dates back to his appointment 14 years ago when he was appointed there by social policy minister Lawrence Gonzi and reconfirmed under ministers Louis Galea, Dolores Cristina and Chris Said.
Malita plc chairman Paul Bonello served as Air Malta director between 2006 and 2010; Malta Enterprise director Grace Borg served as chairperson of the Maltasong Board before resigning; Benny Borg Bonello has been serving on several boards since 2004; former Fgura Mayor Anthony Degiovanni served as director for Education between 2004 and 2008; and Kenneth Zammit Tabona, who was appointed chairman of Valletta Regeneration Committee, had already served on the joint board of Teatru Manoel and MCC between 2011 and 2012.
Even Labour candidatdes for MEP Peter Cordina and Marlene Mizzi, respectively served as head of Civil Protection and Sea Malta chairman respectively under Nationalist governments.
Another person targeted in was retired judge Philip Sciberras, who today serves the Labour administration on justice reform and elderly care homes. But Sciberras was appointed head of the Appeals Court by former Nationalist minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici.
