
Tuesday, 9th December 2008 - 18:38CET
Muscat to suggest candidates for the presidency
Opposition leader Joseph Muscat said today that he will be submitting to the Prime Minister a list of people who should be considered for appointment to the presidency once Dr Eddie Fenech Adami’s term expires in April.
Interviewed on TVM’s Dissett, due to be broadcast this evening, Dr Muscat said the proposals he would submit in January would include men and women both from within and from outside the political scene.
Replying to questions by Reno Bugeja, Dr Muscat reiterated that he is against the proposed underground extension to the museum of St John’s Co-Cathedral but admitted he had not discussed the matter with the St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation, although he was prepared to do so.
Dr Muscat said Labour would continue to insist in EU fora that the government should refund all those who paid VAT on top of their vehicle registration tax for the purchase of cars, saying they had been 'robbed'. Such refunds, he said, could be staggered over a number of years.







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What struck me though, is Dr Muscat's positive thinking - and thus his approach - to come up with a list of potential candidates. This is truly a new style of doing politics. I hope that the Prime Minister has the will to sit down and discuss these candidates with the Leader of the Opposition. I hope to see both the PM announcing the new name, with Dr Muscat in his background. Dr Muscat's positive move deserve its praise from all.
Well done for this breath of fresh air Joseph!!
Giovanna Debono - no way. It will be a demotion for her as she's already an Empress.
We paid this ILLEGAL tax in ONE LUMP SUM and I'd expect it to be refunded in an identical fashion.
Must we argue about who gets to live in San Anton in Winter and the very uncomfortable Verdala in Summer and cut ribbons to new school playgrounds in an inconspicuous dot of an island that most of the world has never heard of?
"What this country needs is an apolitical person of repute who will be accepted by all and who will instil a spirit of unity in this blue/red divided country. The first name that comes to my mind is that of the learned Judge Dr Giovanni Bonello."
While I agree with you that Judge Bonello would make an excellent President of the Republic, if the Constitution serves me correctly, no member of a judiciary - past or present - can take up such a post. Before Judge Bonello took up his place at the ECHR, he was part of the Maltese judiciary, I believe, so that wouldn't be the case...
I'm sorry but that's your opinion. You make it sound very dictatorial the way you put it...... A President SHOULD be a former political person, you said.....and dictatorship doesn't have a place in our country! Why should he be so? Where is democracy and where is people's choice or the chance for others not involved in politics to be eligible? When are we going to change our ideas and give our country a new breathe? And, by the way....you got the wrong examples. I never said that he should be not aware of politics....what I mean is, that, in my opinion, he/she shouldn't be, a political figure...or involved with either parties. There is a difference between owning an opinion and involved or interested in a specific party.
One can excel in political studies but never appeared or sided blue, red ,green or whatever color may appear in the future.
I don't think it is healthy to our country that both government and opposition keep suggesting people from their own respective parties. This is only my humble opinion....and please do not suggest me for the post :-)