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7 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 18 OCTOBER 2020 NEWS UK Residency Card Application Dates Identity Malta Agency will be reaching out to all potential beneficiaries who held a valid residence document on 1 st February 2020. Applicants would need to fill in the form and submit a copy of the documents requested to the Expatriates Unit in Valley Road, Msida on the dates indicated in the letter that they will be receiving (excluding public holidays). It is important to present this letter when applying for the new residency document. Applicants residing in Gozo should apply at the eResidence Unit in St. Francis Square, Victoria Gozo. Applicants will be issued with a 10 year residence document once the status is confirmed. 2 1 ZONE 12 12/10/2020 - 23/10/2020 Swieqi, Pembroke, Paceville ZONE 13 26/10/2020 - 31/10/2020 Mosta, Attard, Imġarr ZONE 14 02/11/2020 - 06/11/2020 Birkirkara, Balzan, Iklin, Lija Applicants will be notified by post with the exact submission dates T: +356 2590 4000 W: www.identitymalta.com E (Malta): brexit.ima@gov.mt E (Gozo): eresidence-brexit.mgoz@gov.mt - 06/11/2020 05/10/2020 ZONE 15 09/11/2020 - 20/11/2020 Marsaskala, Fgura GOZO October - November 2020 Xagħra Last Budget for Scicluna, insiders say KURT SANSONE FINANCE Minister Edward Scicluna could be expected to resign in the com- ing weeks, with the Prime Minister's chief aide Clyde Caruana taking his place in Cabinet. Yesterday both Caruana and La- bour MEP Miriam Dalli, the latter a vice-president of the Socialists in the European Parliament, were confirmed as Labour's newest MPs after being co-opted by Robert Abela to take up the seats vacated by Joseph Muscat and Etienne Grech. Edward Scicluna could be expected to present his eighth and last budget tomorrow, having been made finance minister in 2013 when Labour was elected to power. It is unclear whether Scicluna will just step down as minister or resign from parliament, which will prompt a casual election on the 7th District. Sources close to government told MaltaToday that Scicluna, who turned 74 last week, had indicated to people close to him his desire to step down from minister in the aftermath of his testimony in the Caruana Galizia public inquiry. Scicluna had testified that he was not kept abreast of decisions and projects undertaken by Projects Malta, which fell under Konrad Mizzi's remit, a stand contradicted by the testimony of his ministry's permanent secretary Alfred Camilleri. Having successfully captained a turn- around in the country's finances, Sci- cluna was in the line of fire for acqui- escing to the excesses of the Muscat administration. He signed off on the €340 million government guarantee to the Electrogas consortium, and the fi- nancial services regulatory entities that fell within his remit were criticised by European institutions for their failures to clamp down effective- ly on money laundering. Scicluna joined the PL shortly after Muscat became leader in 2008 and was elected MEP in the 2009 Eu- ropean election on a Labour ticket. He was elected on two dis- tricts in national elec- tions held in 2013 and 2017. Meanwhile, his place will be taken by Caruana, who is an economist and was involved in the Jobs Plus strategy drawn by the Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin be- fore the 2013 election that both major parties signed up to. Caruana was appointed head of the government agency JobsPlus after 2013 and piloted the free childcare scheme introduced in 2014. He was also the chief architect of Muscat's economic policy that saw an influx of foreign la- bour. He was the Labour mayor of Żabbar between 2006 and 2009. The Labour MEP Miriam Dalli has al- so been touted for a Cabinet post that could come in the way of a super-min- istry for energy, transport and climate change. The new faces will mean that certain under-performing ministers and parlia- mentary secretaries may face the chop or return to the backbenches. New blood: Clyde Caruana is being earmarked as Malta's next finance minister, while Miriam Dalli could get an energy ministry that includes transport and climate change