Public is being 'ripped off through shady' privatisation

The country's assets and public land are being handed over to private companies through deals that constitute a rip-off for the public, a pressure group warned on Saturday.
Shady privatisation deals are jeopardising the public's right for transparency with regards to publicly-owned property, workers' rights, decent health services and the quality of our environment, Moviment Graffitti said.
It is now clear that the Labour administration has followed the Nationalist Party's footsteps where it comes to "dodgy" agreements with the private sector that sell off some of Malta's most important assets. Among the assets given by the PN administration under very suspicious deals were Mid-Med Bank, the Enemalta Petroleum Division, Maltacom and the shipyards, as well as land in Kalkara given for the SmartCity "scam", Manoel Island and Tigne Point, Portomaso, and Fort Chambray.
Meanwhile, the current government gave the "so-called" American University of Malta prime sites, including natural land in "onqor, in the name of enhancing the educational sector, even though this is a private University for the exclusive use of the global rich.
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