(Adds PN statement)

Labour MP Charles Mangion, who was recently elected to Parliament to fill the seat vacated by President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, resigned from Enemalta chairman as required by Enemalta law and the post will be filled temporarily by acting chairman Joe Ellul Vincenti, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi said this morning.

He was speaking during a meeting at the Enemalta Marsa power station where he and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat were shown around and greeted by workers, some of who applauded.

Mr Mizzi said it was critical for the country that Enemalta worked efficiently and he was proud that it was stable and future plans would see it grow and look beyond Malta's shores.

He said that work to change the production of electricity to gas was on track as were preparations for halving of emissions.

The government would finally be able to come up with a regeneration plan for the Marsa station and close that at Delimara.

Dr Muscat said he wanted Enemalta to be an example of how a bankrupt company could be transformed into a successful one.

He said that a total of €1 billion had been invested in electricity generation covering the investment in the interconnector, that by the Electrogas Consortium and that by Shangai Electric.

It was now time to also look into to distribution.

thanked workers and assured them that their jobs were guaranteed, that their collective agreement would be respected and that no one would be forced to work abroad.

He hoped the government would be able to unveil initiatives in the Mediterranean soon.

Marsa workers, he said, would also have the opportunity to work on the new Delimara gas plant.

Enemalta workers uncertain about future - PN

In a statement, the Nationalist Party said that while before the election Dr Muscat and the Labour Party gave a guarantee that Enemalta would not be privatised and that workers’ jobs would be guaranteed, a year later, an agreement for the privatisation of the corporation had been signed and workers were being offered a job at Chinese rates.

The workers were living in great uncertainty because they did not know whether they would be working for the Maltese or the Chinese government.

Meanwhile, the minister’s wife was given a €13,000 a month job and vanished somewhere in China.

In a year, the Prime Minister focused his energy on people in his core unit. Together with the minister, he should now focus on creating equal opportunities for all, the PN said.

It said that Enemalta employees were the biggest evidence of how a Labour government used people and then discarded them.

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