The Government has refused to rule out claims that One TV head Jason Micallef is being considered for a post on the V18 committee.
Sources said Mr Micallef was earmarked to serve on the committee tasked to prepare Valletta for the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2018.
When asked whether Mr Micallef was being considered for a post on V18, the parliamentary secretariat for culture said it was “assessing the structure and willing to keep on working in continuity and with new ideas”.
A spokesman did not elaborate but added any announcements would be made “in due course”.
Mr Micallef surprised many when he left a message on his Facebook wall last week indicating it was time for him to move on.
He has not clarified the statement and it is unclear what Mr Micallef’s future in the party or its commercial structures will be.
When asked about Mr Micallef’s role at One TV, a spokesman for the Labour Party re-directed this newspaper to him.
Attempts to contact Mr Micallef in the past week were futile as he did not answer his mobile and ignored text and Facebook messages.
On his Facebook wall, Mr Micallef wrote in cryptic language to thank “traditional Labourites like myself”, who worked side by side at a time when others were pulling “at the other side of the rope”.
But his original post was subsequently followed with a staged appearance on One News with managerial appointments at the station and the Labour Party’s mobile phone arm Red Touch Fone.
A former general secretary for six years, Mr Micallef had to step down in 2009 when Labour leader Joseph Muscat abolished the post and replaced it with that of a hand-picked chief executive.
Mr Micallef was then appointed chairman of the party’s media company. In January last year, Dr Muscat had publicly thanked Mr Micallef for accepting not to contest the general election, a position that changed a few months later much to the surprise of many.
Mr Micallef eventually contested the Mosta district but only managed 576 first count votes.
A few days after the election, Mr Micallef called for the resignation of Anton Attard, the chief executive of national broadcaster PBS, and of the station’s editor Natalino Fenech, describing them as “staunch Nationalists”.