Interview with the Prime Minister
Video: Mark Zammit Cordina, Alan Adami
The Sunday Times and timesofmalta.com will be featuring an interview with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi tomorrow.
The wide-ranging interview tackles a number of issues, including the controversial salary increase to MPs and divorce.
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H Galea
Jan 22nd 2011, 22:37
Mr PM, you cannot solve our little problems, when you hold the EU presedency what shall you do.
jcamilleri
Jan 22nd 2011, 22:12
Gonzi the smiley hyPNotist will keep on brainwashing the gullibles. Stay tuned !
Joey Grech
Jan 22nd 2011, 21:54
All Malta knows that this administration handled the parliamentarians' hefty pay rise insensitively and arrogantly. By refraining from informing the Speaker of the House they struck an unacceptable blow at Malta's democratic structure. That much is indeed a very serious mistake. I wonder what the Hon. Prime Minister will respond to that....if he is asked.
Long ago I used to believe what the P.N. top men used to say but I no longer do - because they invariably put the political agenda before everything else. Also they blame everybody else but never themselves. They promise one day and then they just forget about the promises made. They promise serious, competent administration but they stop at throwing out incompetent Ministers....
They promised hunters, trappers so much before the last election.....
They promised to solve the Squatting problem...but it's still there - squatters still squat on government land despite the strong talk. Also thieves still daily illegally pump out Malta's potable water... Do ask these question of the Hon. P.M. tomorrow please.
People are wondering what he will reply.
As for Divorce - it will be introduced in Malta.
Gianni borg cardona
Jan 22nd 2011, 20:52
Who cares!! I am sick of hearing lies and half truths from our politicians. The pn is not the party it once was, today I am ashamed to say that I am (or was) a nationalist. I am an Airmalta employee and the same party that I always supported destroyed the airline and my career., how foolish and naive I was!! Realized what was going on only a few years ago when it was already too late!! See you at the polls, the sad thing about it is that by that time Airmalta will be no more.
mario gellel
Jan 22nd 2011, 19:48
Can I ask for one (?) to be asked on my behalf to the PM, please ? If yes ?!!!!!
CAN YOU ASK HIM IF HE FOR ONE DESERVED THAT PAYRISE. AND IF YES, FOR WATH ??
David J Cassar
Jan 22nd 2011, 19:02
Pity us! We should focus on what policies the political parties are offering, rather than narrow our focus of personality politics. Time to do a step function in political maturity. Easy to critisise without offering feasable solutions.
Domenic Garcia
Jan 22nd 2011, 23:22
Mr. Cassar, I think the fact is that this government lacks the understanding and the frame of mind to what you are suggesting i.e. feasable solutions.
I honsetly think that your suggestion would be relevant in a country where the democratic framework is more receptive to listening to the people and take action.
Malta is burning! and the causation of this is the incongruent lifestyle of people engoying cakes (600, now it got down to 500) while others breaking their backs to eat bread!
Emmanuel Xuereb
Jan 22nd 2011, 17:14
Was he still holding the pipe in his hand? The 600 Ewro one I mean. I could be just my suspicion but I have a feeling a little more damage control won't do any harm
Noel Mifsud
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:50
what a pity to wake up sunday morning and read all the trues lies that this person have to say. More pity when have to read that we are doing well, we are very rich, the recession has almost passed. The 1.16 raise was enought for the cost of living, the cola is good, eevrything is good. And god bless the Cabinet now have to suffer for paying back the 20,000 euros difference. This island is full of contradiction, trhe workers are in a good standard of living, infact in the last year we paid 27% more on electricity, and the Cabinet is in a very low state infact he had to be given the raise of 500 weekly, and please, dont forget that there was a mistake of 100 euros as well. This person is needed in America to give them salvation. Please EARTH look at GonziPN and all the problems recessions, and bad things will be solved. God thanks for sending in this tiny island this Government, which after making the workers rich, now he is making the Cabinet in a better state of finance. Only one propsal for you dear PM, make an ELECTION NOW
Matthew Attard
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:42
We'll see the same excuses from the PM - or the usual blame-everything-on-everyone-except-on-ourselves strategy. I voted for this man in the last general election but will certainly not do so in the next one. I think that the PN needs some time in opposition now to regenerate itself, rethink its policies and perhaps elect a new leader. However, I still need to be convinced by the Labour Party and Joseph Muscat, as until now I'm not seeing any concrete proposals being put forward.
Hans Borg
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:38
They were so naive that they thought the Opposition would accept the double wage!!
Why is it that everytime that GonziPN makes a fiasco, it's always someone else's fault?
Joseph Calleja
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:19
I cannot wait to hear what our Prime Minister has to say. Maybe he is going to veto the Honoraria Pay Raise. Or Maybe he decided to privatize Air Malta or maybe, and I mean maybe he is going to raise the 1.16 euro raise to, 100 euros? Maybe he decided to pack it all in and resign or maybe even apologize for the mess he got us into. Who knows what he will come with next? HOSS FL-ILMA. Well let us all hear what he has to say. Remember il-baqra milli jkollha ittik.
Eric gahn
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:28
Let me see. The country is doing good. We are all rich. We are all beautiful, fashionable, healthy, saintly people. The power station's by products will be lavander incense which incidentally is good for your pores. There is no cencosorship going on. The Valletta project is what La Valette himself had asked Cassar to design. There is no infighting in the PN. MP's deserve free beer because the parliament's seat are not cushioned enough. Have I forgotten anything?
J. Schembri
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:03
You forgot that you are in Malta Eric.
There is no government which is on a comfortable seat nowadays, people are being hit by the recession and the high cost of living but we are not as bad as many other countries.
Maltese gemgem ‘commentators’ don’t even bother to read positive informed comments by highly influential people like Mr Buzek down here on today’s The Times. Here’s what he said: "Mr Buzek also commended the running of the Maltese economy, saying that although the island was among the last member states to enter the recession it was “among the first to emerge, something the Maltese government and citizens can be proud of”.
I am a Maltese citizen and am proud of how our economy is being run in these difficult and unpredictable times.
c.catania
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:07
not at all.this is the best island in the world.we have a god in the sky and one with us.in america they have david copperfield who s an illusionist and in malta we have another one.we have also deaf and blind people whom sometimes they are able to hear and see.insomma we are the best and only malta
james grech
Jan 22nd 2011, 16:21
@J. Schembri
So because we have came out of the recession, it was all because of the government right? Not because we tightened our budgets and spent less, or because Maltese banks were almost not hit at all? What, may I ask, did this government do, so extraordinary, over and above what it was supposed to do, to get us through this crisis? It is true that some EU money was promised to some businesses so that they will not close down, but which companies actually did receive this money? up to some weeks ago GRTU were still complaining that the promised money had not yet arrived.
But yes it seems that this recession is in the past for Malta, however not for the Maltese. I mean, all those ppl protesting recently in Valletta, why would they do that? Cause those crowds were for sure were not all PL supporters. I think that with or without the recession, the maltese have had enough of one type of government. From its inception it was only capable of increasing their own wages, and this was done behind our backs. What about us? It's time ppl really started to think clearly!!
Eric Camilleri
Jan 22nd 2011, 21:28
Dear Mr. J Schembri just for your info. Our Prime-minister few months ago told us that we are not in a recession and it is over!!
I cannot even think of trusting again this govement, can't you see that this goverment is struggling to survive!!
The economy may be a bit better than other countries but is not reflecting our pockets and everyone is feeling it.
Darren Cassar
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:17
This is the same as the Xarabank thing on the same day as that of the PL demonstration.
Yes Damage Control lol
Jesmond Micallef
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:06
Very Good, I look forward ..... !!
Hildbrand Bianco
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:01
Gonzi PN ..... Gonzi PaNic.
In 1998 people gave a big lesson to Alfred Sant, and the people voted well.
In the near future (not so far) .... maximum 2 years more, people also are going to give a big lesson to Dr. Gonzi 's disaster tactics.
Let say 300 euros added to each of the ministers, and only 1.16 euros added to us. What an unfair ratio. For Gonzi , the humans are not humans but only numbers.
Pat Hobson
Jan 22nd 2011, 14:11
Not another damage control exercise!!!????
r spiteri
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:11
So can't the Prime Minister of this country speak now?! Jumejn ohra daqt nergghu nibdew li l-kelma "Nazzjon Taghna" ma tistax tinghad jew tinkiteb!
Pat Hobson
Jan 22nd 2011, 15:59
@R, Spiteri. Wasn't the tearjerker on Xtarabank not enough for you? Hasn't the PM ridiculed himself enough, bending over backwards to justify all his party's actions and U-turns? For me can have PBS and NET and other media to himself for all I care!!! What's been done is done, and the damage is there for all to see. NO more crocodile tears! The Emperor is indeed without clothes. No use trying to sell us the idea of the Emperor's new clothes!
Eric Camilleri
Jan 22nd 2011, 21:32
@ R.Spiteri
Tibqawx iddahlu raskhom fir-ramel, dan il-Gvern skada u ilu li skada u issa qieghed jigi rifless f'decizjonijiet hziena li qeghdin ikomplu jarrqugh l-isfel. Ma' nahsibx lanqas li jekk jinbidel il-gvern ser ikun hawn xi tip ta' censura ghal xi partit.
Biss xtaqt infakkrek li bhalissa hawn censura ghall Partit partikolari u dan qieghed jigri fuq PBS. Ma nafx liema programm li jkun sr jiddiskuti il-Maltasong for Europe jibda b'intervista mall Primministru waqt protesta !!! imbghad qisu ma' gara xejn u gibna l-kantanti jifirhu u jiehdu gost!!
U halluna!!