Labour leader Joseph Muscat’s mask was broken this morning in an interview on timesofmalta.com and The Sunday Times, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said.

Dr Gonzi said that while Dr Muscat had spent the whole electoral campaign criticising the government for the increase in water and electricity bills, he was now refusing to give guarantees and saying that under Labour, the price would depend on the price of oil.

It was true that the Nationalist government could have conducted the necessary reform in a better way and could have tackled it better but it was the result of what was happening in the world and it had tried to explain that.

Dr Gonzi said that while he had always been consistent, the Labour leader had now changed his message.

Dr Muscat, he said, had also changed his party’s position on immigration before these elections, a situation on which there had always been consensus between the two parties, to take advantage of the far right sentiment which was growing all over Europe.