Comparing Richard Cachia Caruana to Keith Schembri 'unacceptable' - Busuttil

Simon Busuttil has slammed Education Minister Evarist Bartolo for having drawn comparisons between Keith Schembri  and Richard Cachia Caruana, chief of staff of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami who was stabbed 25 years ago this Wednesday.

In an early morning Facebook post on Sunday, Mr Bartolo said two of Malta’s last three prime ministers had a chief of staff who was too powerful, akin to a chief of government. He insisted that there could only by one prime minister at the Auberge de Castille, the one elected democratically. No one else should be allowed to weave a network of power in various sectors which ended up stronger than the national institutions.

“To try to compare Richard Cachia Caruana to a criminal such as Keith Schembri (Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff) is totally unacceptable,” Dr Busuttil wrote.

“While Richard Cachia Caruana will go down in history as one of the public officers who best served the country, Keith Schembri will be remembered as a criminal who served himself of the country.”

He recalled that Mr Cachia Caruana, together with Dr Fenech Adami had transformed the country from the third world state it was in 1987.

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