PM accuses Sant of improvisation
'No one knows what to expect'
The Nationalist government has sought to carry out serious reforms to prepare Malta for EU membership, Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami said, contrasting this to the Labour Party's own approach to policy making.
Alfred Sant, for example, had called VAT a bad tax even though he had decided to retain it, the prime minister said at a discussion in Rabat yesterday evening.
Another example was Dr Sant's pledge to have a Gozo minister. This proposal was not mentioned in the MLP's electoral programme, showing that with Labour, not everything was planned, Dr Fenech Adami said.
He said Dr Sant was improvising, such as by pledging to waive two months' income tax, a measure calculated to cost Lm25 million. It would have been better had Dr Sant spoken about how he intended to reduce the deficit.
"There is still a week to go and no one knows what to expect," he said.
"I have heard that Labour may want to cut the workforce in the public service. I would not put it past Dr Sant to propose a retirement scheme for workers who have been in government service for 25 years."
Dr Fenech Adami also spoke about the importance of the next election, saying a vote for the PN would confirm the people's decision to join the EU.
He later took part in another meeting at Rabat during which the 11 PN candidates on the 11th district were introduced.
Dr Fenech Adami himself is a candidate in this district, which for the first time includes Rabat and Mtarfa.
The prime minister also met farmers at the Missionary Society of St Paul in an event organised by the Association of Farmers, and later went to a Paceville club where he met young people.