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Muscat Hints at Re-Appointing Konrad Mizzi as Minister

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With great power comes great responsibility, and it is safe to guess that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has lined Konrad Mizzi in contention to secure Ministerial spoils after a tiresome tumult of proceedings since the advent of Panama data scandal. Konrad Mizzi is likely to be retained as a government minister if Joseph Muscat’s four criteria of eligibility to his Cabinet are anything to go by. The Prime Minister told PBS head of news Reno Bugeja on Dissett that he would give ministerial posts according to competence, their district vote result, and seniority. Three criteria that could easily be applied to his former energy minister, who earned a high 4,000-plus vote count on the fourth district and delivered on Labour’s key energy policy plank. Bugeja quickly picked upon Muscat’s suggestion of how he will pick ministers, suggesting that correctness and integrity should also be part of the make-up, without expressly referring to Konrad Mizzi involvement in the Panama Papers. He ...

Konrad Mizzi Rues the Slanderous Accusations Thrown Against him – ‘I was a Victim of Fake News’

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Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister Konrad Mizzi has told MEP's investigating the Panama Papers leak that he was "the victim of fake news". Since the Panama-gate controversy materialized and spread across the globe, various political figures have been named and alleged to have partaken in corporate espionage and other money embezzlement schemes. To name a few, Konrad Mizzi has also been named in in such a list of individuals. In a declaration issued by the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr Mizzi accused Pana Committee members of making "politically-charged statements" and implied that the committee hearings were not objective. “How can a hearing be fair, when members of this Committee take a stand before I am heard?" Dr Mizzi said in his declaration. MEP'S investigating the Panama Papers leaks today met with Dr Mizzi and others in a whirlwind round of meetings. In an eight-page declaration that boasted of his achievements as Energy ...