Tanya Borg Cardona has been appointed head of the Broadcasting Authority, the government announced yesterday.

Ms Borg Cardona served as a member of the Housing Authority and several boards within it. She was also a member of the restructuring board of the Vincenzo Bugeja institutes.

She was a consultant of the Housing Authority’s project Equal ‘Headstart’ and a member of the board Yes to Europe.

The authority’s other members are Reno Borg, Peter Fenech, Rose Sciberras and Chris Scicluna.

In its statement, the government said Prime Minister Joseph Muscat thanked outgoing chairman Anthony J. Tabone and board member Alfred Mallia Milanes.

In a statement, the Opposition said it accepted the nomination in a spirit of consensus in spite of its reservations, mainly due to Ms Borg Cardona’s lack of experience in the broadcasting sector.

The PN said that it expected Ms Borg Cardona to show she was capable of exercising her function with strict impartiality as expected from such an important constitutional position.

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