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12 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 11 NOVEMBER 2018 NEWS ANALYSIS S I T U A T I O N V A C A NT ACCOUNTANT (Officer Grade) The Regulator for Energy and Water Services is seeking to recruit an Accountant (Officer Grade). The selected candidate must be a graduate with a first degree in Accountancy (Honours) or in possession of ACCA or equivalent professional qualification, and be proficient in the use of widely available software packages. Interested persons are requested to send their application, together with a detailed CV, by not later than noon of Friday, 23 rd November 2018. Further details with regards to this post may be obtained from the office of the Chief Executive Officer on telephone number 22955121 or on request by email at: ceo@rews.org.mt or from the Regulator's website. Applications marked Private and Confidential, are to be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Regulator for Energy and Water Services, Millennia, 2 nd Floor, Aldo Moro Street, Marsa, MRS 9065, or by e-mail to ceo@rews.org.mt. All applications shall be acknowledged and treated in the strictest confidence. Millennia, Aldo Moro Road, Marsa, MRS 9065. Tel.: 22955121; Fax.: 22955200 http://www.rews.org.mt JOBSPLUS PERMIT No.: 553/2018 Expressions of Interest: Invitation to submit Proposals for the Lease of Properties in Gozo The Director General (Operations) within the Ministry for Gozo notifies that sealed expressions of interest marked: EOI/A1118; EOI/B1118; EOI/C1118 - Expression of Interest: Invitation to submit Proposals for the Lease of Property in Gozo will be received in the tender box, at the Procurement Unit at the Ministry for Gozo, St. Francis Square, Victoria, Gozo, by not later than 10.00 a.m. of Friday 7 th December 2018. Interested parties may either download a copy of the Expression of Interest documents from the Ministry for Gozo website mgoz.gov.mt or request a copy by sending an email to procurement.mgoz@gov.mt. MANY of the problems the Nationalist Party is facing to- day predate the leadership of Adrian Delia, a lawyer who took the party's helm as an outsider in the first leadership election opened up to paid-up members. There is still an identity ques- tion the PN has never resolved when it took Malta into the European Union in 2004, but remained deprived of a rally- ing call to keep different voters under its big-tent party. It was a problem that was aggravated when Labour leader Joseph Muscat set up his own big tent in which even former PN vot- ers could find their place. The massive drubbing of 2013, in which Labour won by an unprecedented 36,000 vote majority, was followed by the election as leader of Si- mon Busuttil. Busuttil tried to short-circuit the PN's identity problem by raising the stakes on corruption and good gov- ernance. It was a legitimate and pertinent issue as confirmed by the latest bombshell that 17 Black belonged to Yorgen Fenech of Tumas Group a key peg in the government's post 2013 energy equation. Yet Bu- suttil often strayed from the facts at hand by overplaying his case on Egrant, in the process winning some voters from the other side but failing to stop the haemorrhage to Muscat's party. The end result was Busut- til being defeated by the same margin as in 2013. So what happened when Adrian Delia took the party helm? Even he shelved the PN's identity question, hoping his change in delivery and leader- ship style, one that is "nearer to the people", would do the trick. He could empathise with vot- ers with his everyman shtick at the village festas, reaching out to people who came to view the PN as a party of detached elit- ists. But while Delia may be less hated by Labour voters than Busuttil was – even earning their sympathy after his marital problems were first revealed in Manuel Delia's blog – nobody seems to have changed their political allegiance. Neither has Delia made many inroads by pandering to migration con- cerns. And his more conserva- tive agenda on moral issues has further alienated liberals in his own party. In short: the PN still lacks a strategy that keeps the grass- roots motivated while also making inroads among floaters and middle-of-the-road voters who opted for Labour in past elections. Despite being more down to earth and affable than his pre- decessor, Delia has not man- aged to motivate former PN voters back to the fold, while the perception that he is less focused on Busuttil's anti-cor- ruption agenda risks alienating The PN leader with an impossible task? Since becoming PN leader Adrian Delia has failed to make inroads with Labour voters or past PN voters: does it mean the PN needs a new leader? And will the 17 Black bombshell be his golden opportunity to affirm his leadership or will it strengthen his internal critics? JAMES DEBONO One crucial mistake after the 2017 election was the PN's rush for a leadership contest without first determining what the values and aspirations of both its restricted pool of voters and those who left it, are