Government denies reshuffle report
The government in a vaguely worded statement this afternoon denied a story on the Opposition media regarding a Cabinet reshuffle.
One News yesterday mentioned several people as possibly being in line for Cabinet posts in a reshuffle which will come about after the Prime Minister said he is considering splitting the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs.
The report said that Beppe Fenech Adami was being earmarked for the Justice Ministry, but he may refuse. Other movements were to involve Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici, Robert Arrigo and Jason Azzopardi, among others.
The government said the Opposition media was inventing stories and not observing its own code of ethics about not saying half truths or untruths.
Meanwhile, informed sources said that the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs may be split without new people being brought into the Cabinet, with the Justice Ministry being assigned to one of the existing ministers along with his existing portfolio.
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Mr Hans Borg
Dec 4th 2011, 17:51
Whatever resuffle GonziPN might do, it will still be another cuc PN who will be chosen !
Charles Sammut
Dec 4th 2011, 15:41
WOW!!!!.... is it really, really going to happen!??..I've been harping on about a reshuffle within the cabinet of gonziPN for quite a while!
However...the reshuffle should not be done by Lawrence- but by the PN. The PN has to remove its prefix and Mario DeMarco should be its new leader.....or perhaps Tonio Borg?!?
And most definately, austin , tonio f. and edwin will be sent away! The election is but a few months away.
..and the beat goes on...and the beat goes on....
j brincat
Dec 4th 2011, 12:39
@Emmy Bezzina
Quote:"Similarly in the field of Health and other areas. The PL is not exuding that political confidence that so many unmanipulated voters are yearning for to determine where their vote will go. A third Party has to emerge that can absorb the so many disgruntled voters with both political parties.In the interests of the Nation,a reshuffle is indeed an immediate requirement"
And from where would this party emerge? From the cosmos, perhaps?
(jb)
R. Gauci
Dec 4th 2011, 11:36
Issa jehduha x-shuffle, mill-bankijiet tal-gvern ghall-bankijiet ta' l-Oppozizzjoni fejn jixirqilhom.
Tony Agius
Dec 4th 2011, 11:18
This is all only Wishy - Fishy .
pat muscat
Dec 4th 2011, 10:03
Its yet an other proof that GonziPN wil remain unreformed and still a party at odds with itself!
David Bezzina
Dec 4th 2011, 08:41
TOO BAD THESE ARE ONLY RUMOURS,A MINISTERIAL RESHUFFLE CAN GIVE AN IMPRESSION OF RENEWAL TO AN OTHERWISE STAGNANT-LOOKING CABINET.
mark borg
Dec 4th 2011, 08:09
The PN does not need any reshuffle; it just needs to get rid of its (so called) leader.
Charles Micallef
Dec 4th 2011, 07:58
The PM will have a problem finding talent to replace some of the Ministers, or at least that is what he told the US Embassy, according to wiki leaks!
A Tonna
Dec 4th 2011, 10:13
Of course he has problems to find talent to replace the ministers. They are all 'cwiec Maltin' right?
Tony Agius
Dec 3rd 2011, 23:48
This false reshuffle lie was invented by the Labour Party and One News with the intention and hope that they will confuse the MPs on the government side before the Saturday Parliament VOTE , 35 AGAINST 34 ), but no one fell for their dirty lie and our Prime Minister was very intelligent and only spoke in the right time . Super One News are getting more and more Untrusted STATION.
mark borg
Dec 4th 2011, 17:54
Super One may be an untrusted station ...but Net is a Disney station.
David Scicluna
Dec 3rd 2011, 22:50
Yes of course we need a reshuffled from Party to another, from Laurence Gonzi to Joseph Muscat.
carmel muscat
Dec 3rd 2011, 22:45
meta jivintaw xi haga jista ijsir hafna deni
M Farrugia
Dec 3rd 2011, 20:47
Il-media tal-labour party semmiet hafna nies fl-ahbarijiet taghha minbarra lil Franco debono li se jinghata ministeru firsi biex tkompli trewwah il-nar taht il-hatab. Li qalet dwar kien biss li l-prim ministru accetta li Franco debono jithalla jikkontesta l-elezzjoni li gejja f'isem il-P.N. Din hija farsa kbira ghax sa issa hadd ghadu ma jaf ufficjalment min se jikkontesta. Nahseb li jekk franco debono jithalla jikkontesta f'ismu l-P.N. ikun qieghed jilghab man-nar u b'cans li jitlef xi whud mis-segwaci teighu fuq id-distrett li jikkontesta debono u anki fuq distretti ohra.
G Mangion
Dec 3rd 2011, 19:27
Imma kif one news ma jejdx wahda tajba !!!
Bla, Bla,Bla !!!
G. Mangion.
G Mangion
Dec 3rd 2011, 19:22
Imma kif one news ma jejdx wahda tajba !!!
Bla, Bla,Bla !!!
G. Mangion.
DR EMMANUEL BEZZINA,MA,MAG.JUR.[EU Law],LL.D.,
Dec 3rd 2011, 18:56
The reshuffle will come......rest assured: many areas in the running of this country are literally stagnant,corruption is rampant,different weights and measures are used depending on contacts and manipulations: the administration of this country requires an immediate overhaul.The Courts necessitate an individual who will be focused 100% on them, their running, how justice is being administered in our country,architecturally re structuring the Law Courts to make them more functionable in the light of the more specialised fields that have cropped up, protected spaces where sessions might be carried out in discreetness unlike the seemingly cattle market that one experiences from time to time,conference rooms for the adjudicants and law practitioners,and so forth...................so many things to do but cannot be attended to as JUSTICE has been so much side lined that whoever becomes solely in charge of JUSTICE,will have a herculean task that demands bulldozing techniques without any tramplings!!
Similarly in the field of Health and other areas. The PL is not exuding that political confidence that so many unmanipulated voters are yearning for to determine where their vote will go. A third Party has to emerge that can absorb the so many disgruntled voters with both political parties.In the interests of the Nation,a reshuffle is indeed an immediate requirement.
Charles Sammut
Dec 4th 2011, 18:22
Hear..hear Dottore!
So refreshing to read an intelligent ,unbiased comment. I totally agree with you with regards to the dire need of a third party made up of fresh brains untainted from the smell of corruption and the pungent smell of stagnation. Alas,this is but a dream on the island in the sun, as the rot which has created the 50/50 division among the electorate is well and truly entrenched in the PN and PL supporters.
...and the beat goes on..and the beat goes on......
Henry Mifsud
Dec 3rd 2011, 18:21
Too late really!
Charles Micallef
Dec 3rd 2011, 18:01
According to wikileaks and in the PM Minister's own words, It must be a serious problem for the PM to find talent in his party to improve his team!
C Galea
Dec 3rd 2011, 17:43
Sorry folks .The reshuffle will not be going ahead because it was leaked to the press
Joe Busuttil
Dec 3rd 2011, 19:15
Or somebody objected to what he was given,or because he was left out,or because he wanted to stay put or.........
M Farrugia
Dec 3rd 2011, 20:48
kemm inti bravu habib. Tahseb li l-P.N. jaghmel kif kien jaghmel il-P.L.
Aristide Galea
Dec 5th 2011, 12:49
I think that reshuffle will not be going ahead not because it was leaked to the press , but because the Prime Minister is considering disbanding the cabinet .
j brincat
Dec 3rd 2011, 17:16
The PN wouldn't want to be seen as having been led by the PL. Not that this should not have been done a long time ago.
They are too proud of themselves!
(jb)
H. Psaila
Dec 3rd 2011, 17:42
Don't speak on behalf of others but speak for your own party (PL) only. What the PL thinks is only illusions and the only PL knows is how to invent stories and nothing else.
VINCENT WILLIAMS
Dec 3rd 2011, 16:39
Yes Prim Minister ,an urgent reshuffle is needed from TOP TO BOTTOM!!!
Mrs Joe Felice-Pace
Dec 3rd 2011, 16:33
"Where there is smoke, there is fire." Sorry Sir. Not in journalism! Journalists hear a lot of things. But serious journalism sifts the rumour, sometimes intentionally invented, from fact. Worse still, at times it mixes comment and facts. An old journalists' maxim is "Fact is sacred. Comment is free!" In my 40 years of jourmalism I have shared stories I had got to know with other journalists. There were times when I wrote a paragraph or two about what I had SEEN,and the other one, sitting behind his desk, produced a whole column of 'news'!
Joe Felice Pace
Joseph Calleja
Dec 3rd 2011, 18:50
Mrs Joe Felice-Pace there are good journalists and not so good journalists. I always keep in mind that "believe nothing of what you hear and only believe half of what you see."
M Farrugia
Dec 3rd 2011, 20:52
Naqbel mieghek mija fil-mija. Illum il-gurnata hafna gurnalisti ma ghandhomx etika mod specjali fejn tidhol il-politika. Jivvintaw, ikabbru l-affarijiet, jesageraw, imma laghar wahda hija li meta isemmu certa stejjer lanqas biss ghandhom il-kuragg li jikkwotaw is-sorsi.
Wally Vella-Zarb
Dec 3rd 2011, 22:23
Perhaps in theory matters should be as you claim. In practice, however, the maxim seems to be "Why let facts get in the way of a good story?" Just listen in to your favourite media....
J Busuttil
Dec 3rd 2011, 16:16
@ Joseph Calleja
According to yours truly.
Joseph Calleja
Dec 3rd 2011, 18:12
I can only account for myself!
Simon Oosterman
Dec 3rd 2011, 16:14
I suggest Justice is attached to Finance and Franco Debono is made Parliamentary Secretary for Justice. For your consideration Dr. Gonzi.
M Farrugia
Dec 3rd 2011, 20:53
Simon I think that your are day dreaming if this is not the joke of the year from your side.
Joseph Borg
Dec 4th 2011, 07:13
The portfolio of minster for Finance, the Economy and Investment is enormous as it is. Adding Justice would be suicidal
Mr Stephen Borg
Dec 3rd 2011, 16:09
In this country we never end up doing anything because if the opposition says we should to do that the government says that we should do exactly the opposite of what was proposed by the opposition in the first place. This happens every day where politics are involved in this tiny island and obviously those with a grain of common sense would agree that both the government and the opposition have good and not so good policies so why is it that we never get the best out of the two inputs and refine it to a good output. Why is it that for 50% the PN is always right and for the other 50% the LP is always right. We are so immature and amateurish at the same time, it is about time that we grow up and put the national interest before any other partisan interest.
Joseph Calleja
Dec 3rd 2011, 15:36
But Government, some reshuffling of Cabinet would be a great idea, especially after the mess some of these Ministers have created or lacked in creating. Maybe the opposition media has a valid point after all. Where there is smoke, there is fire. Again we need a change because the situation we have now is not working to good. A good example is Air Malta and Arriva followed by our Justice System etc etc.