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WEDNESDAY • 14 OCTOBER 2020 • ISSUE 709 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
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Hunting
for votes:
How cunning is
Abela's Mizieb
plan?
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Muscat abused
powers with
Konrad Mizzi
consultancy –
report
MATTHEW VELLA
A report by Standards Commissioner
George Hyzler into a revolving doors
consultancy to former tourism minister
Konrad Mizzi, suggests former prime
minister Joseph Muscat exceeded the
powers of his office.
The as-yet-unpublished report will
find that it was Muscat who as PM,
instructed that the Malta Tourism
Authority regale the outgoing tour-
ism minister Konrad Mizzi to give
him an €80,000 consultancy.
The consultancy was repealed al-
most immediately in the wake of the
public outrage that engulfed the na-
tion when Tumas magnate Yorgen
Fenech was arrested in December
2019. Mizzi, one of the protagonists
in the Panama Papers, was associat-
ed with Muscat's chief of staff Keith
Schembri, who resigned following
Fenech's arrest.
Voters in
south sound
warning for
Labour
Coronavirus:
Man, 71, is
Malta's 44th
victim
LABOUR MEP Miriam Dalli has accept-
ed to be co-opted into the House of Rep-
resentatives, replacing former prime min-
ister Joseph Muscat after his resignation
from Parliament.
Muscat's resignation paved the way for
a casual election on the second district,
but the two most likely candidates, Mark
Causon and the former minister Stefan
Buontempo, failed to submit their nom-
inations.
The move will allow the Labour Party
executive to officially nominate Miriam
Dalli to be co-opted to the House.
An earlier attempt to convince Labour
backbencher Etienne Grech to resign
his seat in favour of Miriam Dalli failed.
But Cabinet sources yesterday said
Dalli, a vice-president of the Socialists
and Democrats in the European Par-
liament, said Dalli had accepted to be
co-opted.
Miriam Dalli will accept co-option
