MLP to take to the streets

When the Labour Party takes to the streets in the coming weeks, it would be expressing peoples' wish for the government to fulfil its pre-election promises, Labour leader Alfred Sant said.

People wanted the government to provide work and social protection but were now realising that instead workers' livelihoods were being threatened, he said.

Dr Sant, who was addressing supporters at a social activity organised by the Paola section of the Labour Veterans Association, said the GWU's demonstration in Valletta on Tuesday served to show the anger and the will for things to change.

Dr Sant said the MLP had been warning for a long time that the Nationalist Party's bad administration would be driving the country into an alley.

Dr Sant also referred to next month's MLP extraordinary general conference which will have as a theme Xoghol, Harsien, Dinjità (Work, Protection, Dignity).

The MLP, he explained, believed that work and social protection offered dignity to the workers.