In the year of the Lord 2008, with Malta in the EU, the Maltese government still has regulations which in theory prevent all government employees, unless you are a messenger, from expressing their political opinions.
I still have not understood why messengers are allowed to express their opinions, but teachers or clerks or IT programmers cannot!
Anyway, this regulation has always been tacitly ignored. However, during the past ten days, some wise guy in the office of the Prime Minister dug this rule up and gave an ultimatum to AD Secretary General Victor Galea: either resign from government work or else give up expressing your political ideas.
Of course, all the government employees on the PN or MLP Executive and Administrative committees were not bothered at all by this zealous bureaucrat.
Apart from the blatant discrimination against our AD official, this regulation is outdated and anti-democratic since basically, it would be only lawyers doctors and self employed people who could express their political opinions and take part in politics.
Prime Minster Gonzi: give a kick in the back side to this discriminatory regulation .. and to your zealous bureaucrat who chose to dig it up and use itagainst Alternattiva Demokratika.
arnoldcassola@gmail.com
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