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A public role or a partisan role?

One of the biggest disappointments of the new government is how quickly it did away with the "Malta Tagħna Lkoll" slogan and used its newly acquired power to put its closest people on the state payroll and to exercise control over every state authority and corporation. This was a far cry from the promise of meritocracy made before the election. It even went so far a to change the laws of the country to allow government MPs themselves to sit on Boards of regulatory authorities. Notwithstanding the conflicting role of representing the people and chairing the authorities regulating them and government itself, authorities which should be above partisan bickering and not subject to government control. To make matters worse, these politically-appointed Chairpersons and Board members serving in public entities, authorities and corporations, seem unable to rise above partisan politics as is expected in their new roles. Aaron Farrugia, chairman of Labour's think-tank