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Edward Scicluna is not a civil servant and his salary was cut in half after Jason Azzopardi’s complaints

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Mark Camilleri
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Disgraced Central Bank Governor Edward Scicluna is having his salary cut in half after Jason Azzopardi complained on Facebook that civil-servants arraigned in court are having their salary cut in half. This was not the original agreement made by the government and Edward Scicluna.

Both Robert Abela and Edward Scicluna rushed to the press yesterday to explain that Edward Scicluna will be on half salary following Jason Azzopardi’s complaint. Edward Scicluna’s public show of gross infantile behavior continues for the sake of a couple of shillings which he won’t be making any use of anyway. The man is sick and demented and is suffering from deep delusions and nausea. The way he speaks and acts makes you think that the is confident that he will enjoy some sort of comeback in case he is proved innocent.

Hardly anyone will ever want to employ him with his infantile attitude, and for Labour he is now just a gross liability with whom it should absolutely not be associated with.

Edward Scicluna self-immolated himself with a final act of gross stupidity. He’s never going to return from this even if he is cleared from all charges.

Edward Scicluna clung to his role thanks to the Central Bank law which protects his independence and autonomy. If Edward Scicluna was an employee of the government or the civil-service he would have very well been fired or faced disciplinary proceedings. He is not being treated like any other government employee at all.

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  1. Sparky avatar
    Sparky

    I will believe it once I see a payslip.

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  2. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    I don’t think Edward Scicluna is trying to make a comeback. He is 77 years old. By the time this is all over, he may be well into his eighties. What kind of comeback can he hope for at such an advanced age, and why would he go searching for an employer?

    I think his intended aim at this point is to grab as much as he can on his way out, like a man condemned to death ordering lobster for his last meal. Grabbing all he could was probably always his aim but the current situation pulls the veneer of being a servant to the Maltese public away.

    I wish I could say good riddance to this useless man but we will probably keep paying him until the end of his term as Governor of the Central Bank (2026). European Union and Maltese institutions should do something about that. The independence of Central Bank governors is well intentioned because Central Bank governors should be able to make sensible monetary decisions even if they are politically inconvenient (e.g., raising interest rates to reduce inflation even if at the same time they may cause a painful recession in an election year) but independence to be and to act should not provide cover for acts which are unrelated to one’s work as governor.

    Mark, I think we need to explain more clearly about why independence for the role exists and how it creates a loophole. The same thing goes for ambassadors who are ‘independent’ of local laws but abuse their independence and diplomatic status when they perform illegal acts unrelated to their work in the country they are stationed in to evade justice.

    It must also be pointed out that the role of Central Bank Governor of Malta is kind of useless anyway because real decisions are taken by the European Central Bank since Malta is part of the eurozone, so the Malta central bank governor should be protected even less.

    As a last point, can we at least stop calling Edward Scicluna ‘Professor’? To be a professor, you have to be working in a university which bestows on you that title because of your expertise in a subject. You represent both the university and the discipline with the title (e.g., Professor of Economics at the University of Malta). Edward Scicluna does not come up in a search of University of Malta staff (it would be shocking if he did) so he is presumably not representing either a discipline or a university. If people must use an honorific, it would be correct to call him a plain old ‘Mister’.

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    1. Self-appointed Profs avatar
      Self-appointed Profs

      He?s a self appointed Profs just like Gaddafi was a self appointed Kurunell.

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