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“Labour government would give stronger investigative powers to the Auditor-General, particularly when witnesses did not collaborate with him. The Auditor-General would also have the right to reopen the BWSC case,”
BWSC
“It is obvious that there is a lot of corruption in Malta”
Dr. Frank Portelli
“Under Labour's plans, Blacklisted persons and companies would be automatically disqualified from bidding for governmental contracts.”
Joseph Muscat
“CORRUPTION TIME-BAR TO BE REMOVED”
“A PL government would also appoint a Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in Public Administration, to oversee the behaviour of ministers and MPs and ensure that conflicts of interest were declared.”
“Wth a labour Government, the chairpersons’ codes of ethics would be improved to avoid conflict of interests while a Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards would be chosen by Parliament to monitor the works of Member of Parliaments, including ministers and the Prime Minister.”
“Permanent secretaries and the chairman of public corporations would be held personally responsible should files or documents needed for investigations be missing.”
“Labour would root out corruption.”
“The fight against corruption had to start from the top following the controversial €210 million contract awarded to the Danish company, BWSC, to construct a heavy fuel plant in Delimara.”
“We will give the opportunity to individuals and companies with genuine information on political corruption to come forward with the details”