Updated 2.10pm

Norma Saliba has resigned her €72,000 post as CEO of the Centre for the Maltese Language, to become the Labour Party's new head of communications and spokesperson. 

Her new job within Labour comes weeks after she unsuccessfully sought election as party president. 

Saliba, who was previously head of news at Public Broadcasting Services, spent just over a year as CEO of the Centre for the Maltese Language - a state entity that was set up one month after she was forced out of her PBS job. 

She was appointed to lead that entity while seconded from PBS. Sources told Times of Malta she is no longer on their books. 

In a statement, the Labour Party emphasised Saliba's 25 years of media experience and wished her all the best in the role. It also thanked Saliba's predecessor Ronald Vassallo, who resigned last month.

Maris Camilleri will lead the Centre for the Maltese Language.

The Culture Ministry thanked Norma Saliba for her "immensely good work" in favour of the Maltese language as CEO of the Centre for the Maltese Language.

Saliba said she was looking forward to a "new chapter" in her career and would approach the job "with hard work and dedication". 

The ministry said Maris Camilleri has been appointed acting CEO of the Centre.

She is a visiting research fellow at the University of Essex after having worked as a lecturer in the Languages and Linguistics Department at the same University.

Camilleri was also a casual lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Malta.