Maltese vote Austin Gatt as most controversial figure of 2011

Unsurprisingly, Austin Gatt emerges from an MT survey as the most controversial public figure of 2011.

For the transport minister, 2011 was a veritable annus horribilis, whose name was associated with a transport reform that failed to meet the very high expectations it had generated. 

A previous survey by MaltaToday showed that Gatt's performance as Minister was only deemed positively by 10% of respondents. In a highly symbolic gesture, Gatt was called a "fucking wanker" by university student Nicola Abela Garrett.

Read the full survey in MaltaToday