Muscat Hints at Re-Appointing Konrad Mizzi as Minister
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 ...