MLP demands explanations over the surcharge

The government has a lot of explaining to do before raising the surcharge “without any consultation whatsoever” the Labour Party said today.

In a statement issued hours after the government discussed the issue with the social partners, the MLP said the government at that meeting had again shirked its responsibility to present a plan of action to ease the burden of the cost of living from Maltese families.

The meeting, as in the one in December, only served for the government to give a presentation on the cost of living aimed at trying to justify itself.

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech’s claim that the budget measurers had helped cushion the impact of rising prices only confirmed that the government was cut off from realities, the MLP said.

What the people had expected was concrete proposals on how living standards would be raised, the MLP said.