Political discrimination

It is amazing that nine years after the Labour Administration was voted out of power, the MLP propaganda machine is still spinning the fairy tale that Alfred Sant, the then Prime Minister, "had the courage to take everyone on board, whether Nationalist or Labourite, from chairmen and members of government-appointed boards... as well as those in the public sector" ( Joe A. Vella, April 10).

My personal experience, however, proves this statement simply hollow and insincere. In fact, during the Labour Administration, my public service appointment as Director Equal Status Of Women was not renewed. I was replaced by an MLP sympathiser, who, earlier in the legislature (on January 1, 1997), had already replaced the president of the then Commission For The Advancement of Women.

My case was one of blatant political discrimination. This was attested in the Employment Commission's ruling of April 29, 2003 wherein it was declared that I had suffered political discrimination when I was not re-appointed director for another term.