Wenzu Mintoff, the head of legal services at Malta Enterprise and editor of the Labour weekly KullHadd filed a judicial protest against Malta Enterprise (ME) today, accusing it of political discrimination.
Dr Mintoff said he had served ME loyally for the past 23 years, during which he had also been openly politically active, including as a Labour MP and chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika. He never mixed up his roles as legal adviser to ME and his political role.
Dr Mintoff said that on December 1 he was called in for a meeting with ME chairman Alan Camilleri, when it was alleged that he was violating a code of ethics, which code did not apply to him. Dr Camilleri handed him a letter where it was claimed that as editor of KullHadd he was working to bring down the party in government.
Dr Mintoff said this showed that it was actually the chairman who was not making a distinction between the government and the party.
He said that Mr Camilleri had a history of participation in political affairs. Indeed, his actions reflected a policy of two weights, two measures. ME actually used the services of people in the Nationalist Party who had a higher standing than he had in the PL, Dr Mintoff said.
Among them were John Bonello, the PN international secretary. Mr Camilleri also seemed to have forgotten that he had in employment persons who were candidates of the party in government.
Furthermore, Dr Mintoff said, Mr Camilleri was expecting him to be judged by a ME Board which included Vince Farrugia, a PN candidate and Jesmond Bonello, a former PN journalist.
All this meant, he said, that according to Malta Enterprise, one could be politically active and work at the corporation only if one supported the party in government.
Source:timesofmalta.com/
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