Kurt Sansone
'Mistake admission not enough'
Labour leader Joseph Muscat said it was not enough for the chairman of the committee that had chosen a blacklisted company as a consultant on the Delimara power station extension to admit it had been a mistake.
"I still have to hear a government minister shouldering responsibility for the decisions taken with regard to the power station contract," Dr Muscat said in his first reaction to David Spiteri Gingell's comment on Monday.
Mr Spiteri Gingell, who had chaired the project's adjudicating committee, admitted on television he had made a mistake in not vetting Lahmeyer International before Enemalta appointed them as consultants to examine the power station bids.
Dr Muscat said what interested him was political responsibility.
"The only thing I have heard is the Prime Minister defending the project all the way," he said.
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority is expected to discuss and decide on the full development permit for the power station extension tomorrow.
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C.camilleri
May 19th 2010, 22:54
@ Martinelli
I admire your loyalty to the PN. Keep trying to convince the absolute majority that what Joseph said in parliament is untrue.
Dont give up, you seem to have a lot of time to spare since you keep lecturing us how bad labour is and how holy the PN are.
Give us a break pls
Joe Grima
May 19th 2010, 14:23
Of course it is not enough. Spiteri Gingell has chosen to fall on his sword publicly but political responsibility does not rest with him but with his Minister. Every accusation that the Leader of teh Opposition Joseph Muscat has made has been vindicated.. Resignations and sackings by the Prime Minister should be next if public opinion is to be pacified . If not, the PM's wll continue to be be judged as a man of pointless words of convenience. Actions speak louder than words PM
J Martinelli
May 19th 2010, 14:10
'Mistake admission not enough' - "...still have to hear a government minister shouldering responsibility"
In hindsight, should Joseph not be held responsible for being anti-EU for so many years and then had the gall of running and being elected as an MEP with the EU forking out a generous salary plus perks? Was his anti-EU attitude a mistake? Was his U-turn (in hindsight) sincere enough to be believed? Should he not resign as leader of a Party which was hell bent against joining the EU? Should he be 'frozen' like his Party froze Malta's application to join the EU?
The LP is so fast to condemn mistakes by others, but so slow in admitting that its policies over the last fifty years have been a complete failure. As always, the LP wants it both ways.