The Labour government is now pitching its counter-proposal after it failed to nominate Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera as chief Justice: Judge Miriam Hayman. The mainstream press is now running the story that the Nationalist Party is proposing Judge Lawrence Mintoff.
Clearly it should be ascertained that the Labour government’s proposal is not a compromise proposal, it’s just another proposal. The Opposition should be suspicious of any candidate that the Labour government proposes because its intentions are very clear: Labour wants to take wholesale control of the Judiciary after having already taken control of the Police and the Office of the Attorney-General. The candidates that Labour government is proposing should be held under the suspicion that they are loyal servants to Labour’s plans and mission for the Judiciary.
The Prime Minister himself is very transparent about his mission with regard to the Judiciary: after all he was the one to lash out at Magistrate Gabriella Vella in total contempt of a pending Magisterial Investigation. After the Prime Minister’s repeated disgraceful comments on the Judiciary, it is obvious that any member of the Judiciary who is accepting to be toyed around with Labour’s nomination should be held under suspicion.
The Labour government should also apply its rhetoric against the Opposition to itself: it should now clearly explain why it opposes the Opposition’s proposal of Judge Lawrence Mintoff for Chief Justice.
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