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8 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 8 APRIL 2020 NEWS ANALYSIS Delia's reshuffle produces In the middle of a pandemic, a magnanimous (or weakened) Adrian Delia appointed a shadow cabinet that has promoted some of his most vocal critics to key positions in justice, home affairs and good governance in a bid to restore party unity. But how does the shadow cabinet compare with the actual cabinet? JAMES DEBONO THE most notable change in Adrian Delia's shadow cabinet is the elevation of Claudio Grech, a prudent internal critic, as the party's spokesperson on the economy, filling a major void in the party's policy-making machine but also cementing the role of one who could very well be a potential successor after a probable defeat in the next general election. But the most striking change was Delia's de- cision to relinquish the justice portfolio and awarding it to his most vocal critic in the parliamentary group, Jason Azzopardi, the lawyer of the Daphne Caruana Galizia family. Other prominent critics placed in strategic posts were rewarded too, giving Karol Aquilina the good govern- ance portfolio and newcomer David Thake the environ- ment portfolio. Significantly Delia has now delegated home affairs, justice and good governance to his internal critics who are associated with anti-corruption movements like Re- pubblika. Delia may have succeeded in keeping everybody on board even if past experience suggests the truce between rival factions may be temporary, especially if the party fails to make any inroads after the COVID-19 crisis. Moreover, the majority of Delia's appointees will struggle to outsmart Labour's more seasoned cabinet.

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