Malta taghna lkoll becomes Malta taghhom biss - Simon Busuttil

Malta was seeing institutionalised corruption because of the great number of irregularities being allowed by the government, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said this morning. Speaking in a recorded interview on Radju Malta’s programme Ghandi x’Nghid, Dr Busuttil said these included the case of Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi’s wife who was being paid €13,000 a month and was selected for the job only because she was the minister’s wife. In two years, the call Malta Tagħna Lkoll (Malta for all) had been replaced by Malta Tagħhom Biss (Malta is just their’s). Dr Busuttil said the Opposition would not be intimidated by the government and had a major responsibility to uncover scandals and institutionalised corruption for the sake of transparency and clean politics. Speaking on the Mark Gaffarena scandal, uncovered by Times of Malta, Dr Busuttil said such affairs were renewing the people’s memories of the 1980s when such obscenities prevailed. These were things which never took place under Nationalist administrations, he said. Another example that was taking the country back to the 1980s, Dr Busuttil said, was the proposed development at Zonqor. The land was chosen underhandedly and...