>Rosianne Cutajar has resigned from the Labour Party parliamentary group, bowing to pressure following the publication two weeks ago of hundreds of chats between her and Yorgen Fenech.
>She will stay on in parliament as an independent MP.
>The PL in a brief statement said Cutajar had written to Prime Minister Robert Abela to inform him of her decision.
>Cutajar told the prime minister that she had taken the decision serenely but “with a heavy heart”.
>”The Labour Party was my second family for the past 13 years,” she wrote, adding that she would now take better care of her health and her new family.
>Cutajar and her partner last week announced that she is expecting a baby girl.
>The former Qormi mayor wrote to the prime minister at 5.10pm, just as Labour Party MPs were walking into the party’s headquarters to meet with the party’s executive body.
>Sources said that they expected the Cutajar issue to be a key topic of discussion during that meeting. According to the party’s statute, MPs can be booted out of the party’s parliamentary group through a vote of the party executive and its MPs.
>Prime Minister and Labour leader Robert Abela declined to comment as he entered the meeting.
>Cutajar expanded on her decision to resign from Labour’s parliamentary group in a post on her Facebook profile.
>”I don’t want to be a weight for anyone,” she wrote, arguing that she was bowing to pressure to quit following the “inhumane, vindictive and personal attack” she faced two weeks ago.
>That is a reference to author Mark Camilleri releasing transcripts of 2,200 chats between herself and Yorgen Fenech, who is awaiting trial for alleged involvement in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
>The chats revealed an intimate relationship between the pair at a time when Cutajar was publicly dismissing calls to investigate suspected corruption linked to Fenech.
>They also confirmed that Fenech gave Cutajar money as part of a property deal and show Cutajar asked Fenech for help on some occasions.
>Initially, the prime minister made it clear that he did not intend to take action against Cutajar, saying she had already resigned as parliamentary secretary over her relationship with Yorgen Fenech in 2021 and should not be made to pay a political price for a second time.
>But six days later his tone was different. Speaking to **Times of Malta** outside Castille, he said nobody is bigger than the Labour Party and MPs must “assume responsibility” for their actions.
>Cutajar’s resignation draws the curtain on a political career that began in earnest in 2012, when she was elected mayor of her hometown, Qormi. Cutajar would then go on to be elected as an MP in 2017, becoming parliament’s youngest member at the time.
>She remained on the backbench until January 2020, when Robert Abela included her in his first cabinet, making her parliamentary secretary for civil rights and reforms.
>But that promotion would be short-lived: in 2021, Cutajar was made to step down following a **Times of Malta** exposè that revealed how she had quietly pocketed thousands of euro from Yorgen Fenech as part of a property deal.
>In her post announcing her resignation, Cutajar said that the chat transcripts had been published intentionally to hurt her and had revealed “nothing new”.
>”All of a sudden, after the usual calls from some quarters, I started facing pressure to pay some sort of political price for the second time. I asked what had changed, but I did not get an answer,” she wrote.
>Cutajar said that she would serve as an independent MP while remaining “consistent with Labour values”.
Wait wasn’t she elected as part of labour’s women quota? Surely her position should be tied to her actually remaining a part of labour. People didn’t elect her as an independent candidate…in fact they didn’t elect her at all.
How can she remain in parliament as an independent MP? If she was chosen by the labour party (she was never elected but benefited from the scheme the government did), how can she resign as still stay in parliament?!
She hasn’t resigned from parliament, so technically only from the Labour Party. She keeps showing us that she has no integrity! A utter disgrace!
What a load of bullshit!!!
So she stays put. What kind of resignation is this?
Abela is a bigger piece of shit than she is, no surprises there.
Mafia state
She is pregnant right ? More piglets on the way it seems!
We expecting more than that after her scandals
Does she earn a salary as an unelected MP?
She still remains a member of parliament… so she hasn’t dont anything. We’re still going to work to pay for her criminal lifestyle
U kienu jghidu ghal-Gonzi Li iggranfat mas-siggu tal-poter.
Bunch of assholes.
And everyone who does not vote or votes for anyone with no chance of making it to parliament just helps the leeches stay on power.
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>Rosianne Cutajar has resigned from the Labour Party parliamentary group, bowing to pressure following the publication two weeks ago of hundreds of chats between her and Yorgen Fenech.
>She will stay on in parliament as an independent MP.
>The PL in a brief statement said Cutajar had written to Prime Minister Robert Abela to inform him of her decision.
>Cutajar told the prime minister that she had taken the decision serenely but “with a heavy heart”.
>”The Labour Party was my second family for the past 13 years,” she wrote, adding that she would now take better care of her health and her new family.
>Cutajar and her partner last week announced that she is expecting a baby girl.
>The former Qormi mayor wrote to the prime minister at 5.10pm, just as Labour Party MPs were walking into the party’s headquarters to meet with the party’s executive body.
>Sources said that they expected the Cutajar issue to be a key topic of discussion during that meeting. According to the party’s statute, MPs can be booted out of the party’s parliamentary group through a vote of the party executive and its MPs.
>Prime Minister and Labour leader Robert Abela declined to comment as he entered the meeting.
>Cutajar expanded on her decision to resign from Labour’s parliamentary group in a post on her Facebook profile.
>”I don’t want to be a weight for anyone,” she wrote, arguing that she was bowing to pressure to quit following the “inhumane, vindictive and personal attack” she faced two weeks ago.
>That is a reference to author Mark Camilleri releasing transcripts of 2,200 chats between herself and Yorgen Fenech, who is awaiting trial for alleged involvement in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
>The chats revealed an intimate relationship between the pair at a time when Cutajar was publicly dismissing calls to investigate suspected corruption linked to Fenech.
>They also confirmed that Fenech gave Cutajar money as part of a property deal and show Cutajar asked Fenech for help on some occasions.
>Initially, the prime minister made it clear that he did not intend to take action against Cutajar, saying she had already resigned as parliamentary secretary over her relationship with Yorgen Fenech in 2021 and should not be made to pay a political price for a second time.
>But six days later his tone was different. Speaking to **Times of Malta** outside Castille, he said nobody is bigger than the Labour Party and MPs must “assume responsibility” for their actions.
>Cutajar’s resignation draws the curtain on a political career that began in earnest in 2012, when she was elected mayor of her hometown, Qormi. Cutajar would then go on to be elected as an MP in 2017, becoming parliament’s youngest member at the time.
>She remained on the backbench until January 2020, when Robert Abela included her in his first cabinet, making her parliamentary secretary for civil rights and reforms.
>But that promotion would be short-lived: in 2021, Cutajar was made to step down following a **Times of Malta** exposè that revealed how she had quietly pocketed thousands of euro from Yorgen Fenech as part of a property deal.
>In her post announcing her resignation, Cutajar said that the chat transcripts had been published intentionally to hurt her and had revealed “nothing new”.
>”All of a sudden, after the usual calls from some quarters, I started facing pressure to pay some sort of political price for the second time. I asked what had changed, but I did not get an answer,” she wrote.
>Cutajar said that she would serve as an independent MP while remaining “consistent with Labour values”.
Wait wasn’t she elected as part of labour’s women quota? Surely her position should be tied to her actually remaining a part of labour. People didn’t elect her as an independent candidate…in fact they didn’t elect her at all.
How can she remain in parliament as an independent MP? If she was chosen by the labour party (she was never elected but benefited from the scheme the government did), how can she resign as still stay in parliament?!
She hasn’t resigned from parliament, so technically only from the Labour Party. She keeps showing us that she has no integrity! A utter disgrace!
What a load of bullshit!!!
So she stays put. What kind of resignation is this?
Abela is a bigger piece of shit than she is, no surprises there.
Mafia state
She is pregnant right ? More piglets on the way it seems!
We expecting more than that after her scandals
Does she earn a salary as an unelected MP?
She still remains a member of parliament… so she hasn’t dont anything. We’re still going to work to pay for her criminal lifestyle
U kienu jghidu ghal-Gonzi Li iggranfat mas-siggu tal-poter.
Bunch of assholes.
And everyone who does not vote or votes for anyone with no chance of making it to parliament just helps the leeches stay on power.