PN accuses Muscat of avoiding important issues

The Nationalist Party this afternoon accused Labour leader Joseph Muscat of sitting on the fence over important issues which the government raised more than two months ago.

Indeed, in order to avoid taking decisions on those issues, Dr Muscat last Sunday spoke in a club about other issues which he said needed to be discussed.

The PN recalled that when, last April, the Prime Minister wrote to the leader of the opposition on various issues, notably parliamentary business, the opposition requested two months to reply, while the leadership election was underway. That time had expired, and the opposition was still dithering.

The PN said Dr Muscat adopted antiquated methods when he turned constitutional and other important matters into items of political challenge at a party club.

A serious opposition did not play to the gallery while avoiding taking decisions, but joined the government, as it was invited to do, to discuss the reforms which the country needed, the PN said.