Pro-EU vote "needs to be confirmed" - PM

Eddie Fenech Adami reiterated yesterday that in order to ensure the best future for Malta and themselves, those who had voted for European Union membership in the March 8 referendum needed to confirm their pro-EU vote even if they did not embrace the same political belief as the Nationalist Party.

In this way they would be guaranteeing that Malta would have more work and investment opportunities and a higher standard of living, he said.

Dr Fenech Adami, who was speaking at a social activity at the Mgarr Hotel, Ghajnsielem, said that normally in an election, the electorate considered before deciding on their future government the activity of the outgoing government and its electoral programme, against what the party in opposition was proposing.

It was therefore good to look back over the last six and a half years to see the strong contrast in the leadership of the Labour and the Nationalist governments, Dr Fenech Adami said.

Dr Fenech Adami said that the 19,500 vote majority for EU membership in the referendum, included persons who embraced different political views from those of the PN but who believed that the EU was the best way forward for Malta.

Dr Fenech Adami said that because of the stand taken by the leader of the Labour Party over the EU and the referendum result, those who had different political views from those of the PN had no alternative but to vote for the party which promised to lead Malta into the EU, because Alfred Sant has already declared that he would not sign the membership treaty if the MLP were elected.

Dr Fenech Adami also expressed satisfaction that both before and after the referendum, a total of 31 organisations insisted on the need to ensure that the will of the people as expressed in the referendum would be implemented.