Nationalist MP Mario de Marco has described the prime minister's decision to place home affairs and justice within the same ministry as a shocking change of direction by Labour in view of its declarations a few months ago.
"To everyone’s surprise, if not outright shock, Joseph Muscat has appointed a minister responsible for Home Affairs, with a subservient Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Justice," the former tourism minister noted on his facebook page.
"This jars with what happened just a few months ago, when Labour pressed hard in parliament to have Home Affairs and Justice placed under separate ministries. It is now amply clear that their position then was motivated solely by political opportunism, and nothing else.
"Is this what was meant by a change in direction, one might ask? This sudden left about turn could also be indicative of a sprouting arrogance, so early in the day for Labour's much vaunted new way of government."
He also described Mario Cutajar's appointment as designate head of the Civil Service as 'a means to politicise the public service'.
"With the campaign glitter hardly off his image, on his first day in office as Prime Minister, Dr Muscat appointed,...
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