People 'gaining confidence' in the PN
PN candidate Mario Rizzo Naudi says Labour is just splashing out money in this campaign.
The Ghaxaq doctor says in in interview carried in The Sunday Times today that the Nationalists are slowing gaining confidence and the people are gaining confidence in the party.
See excerpts of the interview above. Full text in The Sunday Times.
Advert
Popular Stories
Old buses, drivers to return
Former Judge Ray Pace found dead
Updated: Minister apologises for...
Three new Nationalist MPs elected –...
Where’s Everybody staff is given notice
Updated - Director of Prisons submits...
Update 4 - Eddie Fenech Adami stable...
Revealed...the face of a Maltese woman...
Update 3 - Woman trapped as car crashes...
In Discussion
Old buses, drivers to return
Updated: Minister apologises for...
Updated - Director of Prisons submits...
Enemalta seeking minimum five year gas...
Protected birds shot and trapped as...
Mario de Marco, Zammit Dimech concede,...
PN postpones salaries as financial...
Updated - PM's offer to Opposition MPs...
No appeals board for first part of power...
Advert
79 Comments
Post comment
Please sign in or create your Account to post comments.
B. Farrugia
Jan 15th, 20:35
After 25 years we should be completely convinced,
not some unknown factor,
we have all experienced their style of governance.
Mario Pandolfino
Jan 13th, 21:17
Il euro news tal gimgha l-ohra kien hemm feature fuq il problema ta ilma ghax xorb li ghad ghandu Cipru.Dan ghadu qed jinporta l-ilma bit-tankers mil Grecja u qed jahseb biex igib l-ilma bil pipe line mit-Turkija.Jigifieri Cipru ghad ma ghandux RO,s bhal ma ghandu pajjizna bis-sahha ta gvernijiet Nazzjonalisti .
C Busuttil
Jan 13th, 23:34
RO's kienu bdew issiru fi zmien mintoff u l-kmb, ahjar ma titkellmux fuq affarijiet li ma tkunux tafu ghax xtaghmlu figura ahjar
R Zammit
Jan 13th, 19:58
'People 'gaining confidence' in the PN'- Sarcasm at its best
R Abela
Jan 13th, 17:32
yes mr rizzo the pn are gaining confidence that the opposition benches are very near!
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 19:41
Don't count the chick BEFORE they hatch. The last 'prophet' who counted them, was misled. Do you recall Jason, smiling and announcint a big victory BEFORE last election. And thousands of euros were bet? Then, when the true results appeared, he 'melted' away, leaving Falzon to fce the press. Some Gen Secretary!
P. Ciantar
Jan 14th, 16:37
I have head this for the last 30 years by labour ie 1981,1987,1992,1998,2003 and 20o8.
Joseph Azzopardi
Jan 13th, 15:17
Mela int tghix fil-qamar Mario. Staqsi lil Ghaxqin kemm marru tajjeb bil-gvern tieghek, iktar dawk li joqghodu fl-inhawi fejn toqghod int jew ta warajk, li ilhom snin kbar it-toroq qishom wicc il-qamar, qatt ma saritilhom l-ewwel passata asfaltar. Ara l-PN fejn kien qed iberbaq il-flus, billi lilhom infushom taw hames mitt ewro fil-gimgha meta haddiem zghir bilkemm jaqlaghhom f'xahar.
Mark Spiteri
Jan 14th, 10:31
mhux ahjar tkellem lill-kunsill lokali ta' hal ghaxaq ghat-toroq habib..Kunsill Laburist
Joseph Grech Attard
Jan 13th, 14:37
Why mention the Titanic? More recently Costa Concordia suffered rhe same fate!! A drowning person clutches at a straw, but still drowns! There is only one more stone for the PN and GonziPN to throw. That of creating havoc and violence by provocation and blaming it on us 'Lejber elves.' Beware PL! It happened before! The faces can change, but the tools remain the same. Could Gozo be the first?
GL Calleja
Jan 13th, 14:34
This is one optimist person. Maybe Dr Mario Rizzo Naudi can see better if he opens his eyes and being a doctor you would think he knows better. That is why I think that Doctors and Lawyers should stick to their profession and stay out of politics. You cannot please God and the devil at the same time. If in doubt look at the mess our country finds itself. Bigger deficit and getting worse.
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 16:27
GL Speaking about 'mess'. Had Cyprus Joseph been Prime Minister in the last 5 yeas, his genius idea of following Cyprus would have brought A REAL MESS. Luckily, Malta had Gonzi steering! You complain about the deficit! Wait till Cyprus Joseph spends 600,000 more, adding to our deficit. Or is deficit created by JM OK for you?
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 16:32
During last election, ANOTHER very optimistic person was telling PL supporters that it was a clearcut victory. Some even bet big money, after his claims. His wide smile vanished when the REAL results came out. He left Falzon by himself to face the press.
Adrian P. Cassar
Jan 13th, 17:02
Dear GL, who should be in politics then? Housewives? Street sweepers? Waiters?
Dear Joe M Cyprus has a GDP per person higher than Malta. It is in trouble because their banks had loaned to Greece. You are happy with 5billion debt, because you predict JM is "worse".......no comment
Carmel Zammit
Jan 13th, 18:25
@Joe Borg
Cyprus got into the situation it is in not out of its own making. Grecce draged it. Incidentally thanks to successive PN administrations we have been led down the same path that led Greece to near bankruptcy. EFA inherited a favourable balance which has been turned into an adverse one thanks to a vicious deficit that Tonio Fenech and Gonzi have proved incapable of controlling.
C Busuttil
Jan 13th, 23:39
Joe M Borg
Whatever happened to the Irish example the PN wanted us to follow ?
One piece of advice The deficit should be a subject nationalists avoid at all costs given their track record
Paul Gauci
Jan 13th, 14:31
I lost confidence in the PN as soon as the Prime Minister showed that he was unable to control some of the most arrogant elements within his own party.
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 16:23
I agree that he was unable to control some elements, but does that mean that you have confidence in, and prefer, Joseph, after what he did to his Deputy? What about his advice to copy Cyprus? Had HE been prime minister, instead of Gonzi, we would be in the same mess as Cyprus. He had also advice against joining EU; against Euro; against VAT; and Iceland (!) Think before you vote!
Joe Busuttil
Jan 13th, 14:11
You don't seem to have your finger on the people's pulse even though you are a doctor (or maybe you are not reading it correctly.)
Charles Sammut
Jan 13th, 14:04
..yes this guy is right ..quote.."the Nationalists are slowing " ...LOL
Roberta Micallef
Jan 13th, 14:04
Dr. Rizzo Naudi, ara veru qed thoss il-polz tal-poplu ta! Nifrahlek!
G Schembri
Jan 13th, 13:58
Dr Mario Rizzo Naudi should have supported his colleague, Franco Debono in his quest for the law on party financing. But then it was not in his interest to support Franco since he would have contested the election in the same district, and Franco would have won hands down.
John Azzopoardi
Jan 13th, 13:55
Only in your dreams............tell us something we donl't know.
John Spiteri Jones
Jan 13th, 13:53
Im not too sure about that people will not forget when your glorius prime minister awarded himself, you and those around you 600 euro a week while they had the cheek to give 1.50 euros to the man in the street, you can throw as much pepper as you like now that the elections are close and Gonzi cannot do nothing about that , think of the many PN voters that your party ignored. votes in the bin!
Joseph Bugeja
Jan 13th, 13:43
No Dr Rizzo Naudi Labour is not splashing money.
You are just splashing Gonzi's words for lack of anything of substance to say.
Very original. Memorable interview!
Mr J Xerri
Jan 13th, 13:34
Make the Labour Party a favour Dr Rizzo Naudi by believing and make your party believe in what you are saying.
Michael Gatt
Jan 13th, 12:53
Dr.Rizzo go and tell it to the marines when they are drunk,they might believe you than
C Busuttil
Jan 13th, 12:34
Dott ahjar tara dwar it-tieni siggu fuq id-distrett tieghek ghax jekk jibqaw sejrin hekk l-affarijiet b'wiehed ha jispicca l-partit. Certu kummenti ma nafx kif tohorgu bihom aktar jaghmlu hsara milli gid.
Disfatta epokali qed tistenna l-partit u tort ta' l-ebusija ta' l-irjus minflokk nammettu lil labour hareg bi proposta tajba fuq id-dawl u nibdew niffokkaw fuq issues ohra qed naghmlu pudini
G. Bugeja
Jan 13th, 12:06
Dan il-kandidat ma jafx x'inhu jghid u qed ighix fis-shab. Hekk fih politika dan lanqas jaf x'qed jigri madwaru. Ahjar jara x'qed jigri fl-ispstar Mater Dei. Bhala tabib ghndu l-obbligu li jsemma lehnu u jahdem biex din it-tbatija li ghaddejjin minnhom il-pazjenti jispiccaw.
Carmel Serracino-inglott
Jan 13th, 14:53
Provi please
R. Aquilina
Jan 13th, 11:58
Come on doc....Even the band kept on playing merry tunes when the Titanic was sinking..
F. Mercieca
Jan 13th, 11:57
Rizzo Naudi doesn't know what he is saying. The PL gathers money from the people and has no contractors feeding money to the Party. This new politician must know that the PL was always transparent as regards the funding. Unlike his Party, GonziPN,. This great politician should have insisted with his GonziPN to implement Dr Debono's proposal regarding the the Political Parties Financing.
m. borg (slm)
Jan 13th, 11:55
TOM on Sunday gives at the moment a 54-44 lead to labour excluding undecided votes which would mean a possible further widening.
But I do not believe in polls and I would not be surprisede a couple of weeks before 9th March we see a total U-turn in favour of gonzipn, not a real one but only as a boost for this ailing party
Victor Laiviera
Jan 13th, 11:52
"that the Nationalists are slowing gaining confidence and the people are gaining confidence in the party."
That is not what surveys published today in The Times and Maltatoday indicate ....
R. Balzan
Jan 13th, 11:26
Hallina dottore. The opinion polls in both this newspaper and on MaltaToday tell a totally different story, a story called "A gap of 11% and still widening". That, in voting terms means a gap of around 30,000 votes. Capisc?
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 12:05
In 1996 people had confidence in PL, at least for a few months! The VAT gimmick won thousands on their side. The same thousands who were betrayed when faced with CET! On the first opportunity, they voted PL out, and they have been out ever since. Unfortunately, the DAMAGE had been done, and our pockets suffered!
They even introduced 33 taxes, of which, PN removed or reduced 25! Capisc?
Jean Claude O'Neil
Jan 13th, 12:12
That's what they were saying in 2008 as well (till the very last day). U hallina R. Balzan! Imma kif kull elezzjoni dejjem tghidu li ha tkaxkruha, u mbaghad dejjem tibqghu fl-oppozizzjoni? Kulhadd jinsa qisu!
Roberta Micallef
Jan 13th, 14:09
Actually the polls in 2008 WERE saying that PN would win by a tight margin; I'm sorry to say that Dr.Sant (with all due respect) chose NOT to believe them. I invite you to visit the online archives of Malta Today and find out for yourselves. This time round though, PL are not taking any chances and are being proactive and not passive in the campaign.
Joseph Micallef
Jan 13th, 11:24
Even the industrialists and the hoteliers are gaining confidence Mr. Rizzo Naudi? I don't think so and they shoudn't since Gonzi spoke against them in these last days!
Joe M Borg
Jan 13th, 12:07
Which industrialists and hoteliers? Lufthansa? SR Electronics? E-gaming? Record toirism? Be sincere, for once!!
K Grech
Jan 13th, 12:43
Joe M borg we are talking about industrialists such as GO and others which have been guaranteed a better future in 2008 through letters ;) now they know how to respond to this promise being broken, the vote is in their hands and they will not loose the chance
Joseph Micallef
Jan 13th, 13:31
@ Joe M. Borg,
Are you living in Malta? Let me tell you with great pleasure: (part 1)
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130110/elections-news/pl-s-energy-project-doable-mda.452725
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130110/elections-news/Employers-hail-party-s-energy-ideas.452600
Joseph Micallef
Jan 13th, 13:33
@ JM Borg: (part 2)
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130109/elections-news/pl-s-energy-proposals-well-researched-and-ambitious.452567
Perhaps you are including the 7,000 virtual jobs created at Smarcity? Or the hundreds of jobs created by Oderbrecht when their international headquarters were brought to Malta?
Who needs to speak honestly? ... not for once! Grow up!
Roberta Micallef
Jan 13th, 14:00
@ Joe M Borg: MHRA & Tony Zahra, Malta Employers Assiciation, Malta Developers Association, UHM, Former Chamber of Commerce president Reginald Fava, Forum Unions Maltin....All spoke in favour & support of the PL's energy plan. Of course lets not forget Jesmond Mugliette who is also in favour of said plan. Panic station, anyone ?
Joseph Micallef
Jan 13th, 11:23
I lost confidence in PN... not now and not slowly but since 2008.
John L Galea
Jan 13th, 11:13
On what basis?
Mr Stephen Borg
Jan 13th, 11:13
But after all what do you expect a PN candidate to say, he surely cannot profess the opposite, this is like the sinking Titanic where the capitain was still in denial about his sinking ship.
Joe Spiteri Gauci
Jan 13th, 11:13
Well said Doc .... continue doing what you always did ..... the right things
K Grech
Jan 13th, 12:46
He probably wants to be part of those who start taking again the 500€ a week yea? that is the right thing of GonziPN, even Simon didn't find how to justify such a hypocrite action. And you do you justify it Mr Joe? because that is what GonziPN and his ministers will do, start taking again 500€ after the first weeks '''''ifff'''''' they will ever get re-elected
Frank Zammit
Jan 13th, 11:07
Dream on buddy. If you think that the PN's recent behavior has,in anyway, helped GONZI PN to recover lost ground due to incompetence and internal strife, then you real has a very low esteem of the people's intelligence. Since when has the Maltese people feared the introduction of new technology? How did the PN arrive at the conclusion that it pays to give MALTA a backward image abroad?
stephen mifsud
Jan 13th, 10:59
Mario is a very nice man and i wish he was LP candidate because he really wants to help the people and the country but needs t get off the fence on a few issues ...like civil unions and divorce ????
Jon Briffa
Jan 13th, 10:49
Tal-grocers zgur qieghdin ikunu kunfidenti.... wara kollox il-PN dejjem mexa b'politika "tal-grocer"
Malcolm Seychell
Jan 13th, 10:46
''that the Nationalists are slowing gaining confidence''
Every survey is saying the opposite
W. Cassar
Jan 13th, 10:44
Confidence is built during the last 5 years not the last 2 months... But I guess he had to say something positive.
Joseph Borg
Jan 13th, 10:44
Another good example of gonzipn being in touch with us all!
Noel Damato
Jan 13th, 10:43
No thanks enough is enough. I think that he wants Malta to be HIS or THEIRS and not ours.
Paul@ Micallef
Jan 13th, 10:39
The Labour is splashing out money. What money? I thought the PN is the champion for making record collections from their benefactors. The PN are so much used to spend uncontrollable the taxpayer money that they cannot comprehend the fact that it is not how much you spend that counts but what are you going to gain with what you spend. 5 billion Euros in debt is the proof of this Dr Rizzo Naudi.
A.Felix Busuttil
Jan 13th, 10:39
are you saying you are going to make it to Parliament instead of Dr Franco Debono?
jason cassar
Jan 13th, 12:47
nice one !
Peter Simpson
Jan 13th, 10:21
........dan il-paniku? u daqqa gimmick u daqqa it-tankijiet se jisplodu u l-pipeline qam mir-raqda meta anqas biss applikaw ghalih! Confidence in a dysfunctional political system that has failed us?
Carmel Serracino-inglott
Jan 13th, 15:10
Failed you say? That is what JM says BUT in reality you have just to look anywhere in Malta to knonw what success means. The PN has proved to be a positive party on the whole and that is what RN means :- People ( not all of course) are realizing that what Malta got during the last few years is something to be proud of; and that only the PN could do it. Rizzo Naudi does not invent things he knows
pat muscat
Jan 13th, 20:25
C.Serracino-inglott.: 85,000 new poor, 25 years of continuous deficits,5 billion of debt,Air Malta on its knees; 800 million euros of moribund EneMalta and a powerstation that produces the second highest electricity bills in Europe, and at the same time, is poisoning the very air we breath: are these the milestones that we should be proud of?
Lawrence Fenech
Jan 13th, 10:21
Il-GonziPN jista' jibda izarma.
Alfred Vassallo
Jan 13th, 10:13
''that the Nationalists are slowing gaining confidence''
What confidence?? When everybody KNOWS that the pn in office will be 'MUCHhhhhhh more of the same'
I bet the first thing that they will pass is the 500Euros which they selfishly gave to themselves, only to put it on hold until the election....and then it will be feast day.
roderick fenech
Jan 13th, 10:11
I'll pass thanks.. not me for sure...
R Axisa
Jan 13th, 10:10
U l-PN x'inhu jaghmel, anki djar qed iqassam biex jirbah il-voti!
Denis Pace
Jan 13th, 10:56
hemm xi wahda ghalija?
din fejn smajtha?
John Bonello
Jan 13th, 11:10
Can i be included after Denise Pace, might as well choose PN then with MLP you get a mere 2c6 reduction with the PN you get a new house. vote pn for a new house lollllllllllllllllll
m. borg (slm)
Jan 13th, 10:08
Wouldn't expect him to say otherwise.
I'll be a chimp's uncle if any gonzipn exponent would say that gonzipn is suffering from a substantial point loss to PL.
Anthony Mizzi
Jan 13th, 10:01
Labour is doing what the PN is doing only with more value and results ... but the PN is splashing our money, through our taxes through the power of incumbency! They have made the country's coffers their own and DEFICITS ours!
They are just spending and spending and trying to buy out this election ..... and the bills will be issued after the 9th March!
m borg
Jan 13th, 09:56
keep on dreaming ...
Frank Zammit
Jan 13th, 09:47
In the name of common sense, PLEASE stop harming MALTA's image with the business community around the world. These arguments that the storage of gas is unsafe and all the hogwash that the PN is coming up with, is really doing Malta no good. We are giving the impression that Malta is such a backward country that we can't keep up with the new technology. Pls stop this.
Cornelius Murphy
Jan 13th, 11:01
Joseph Muscat would be wanted by the whole world as an energy consultant if he could really find a way to offer electricity at cheap rates that are fixed for 10 years. Tbellghuniex ross bil-labra!
Eve Axiaq
Jan 13th, 09:44
Bil-pjaciri li qed isiru qed izzidu l-kunfidenza Sur Rizzo Naudi. Fil- korp tal pulizija, fl-armata, fil- Mepa, fil-jobs tal-gvern u l-awtoritajiet etc........ Dawn ma ssemmihomx? Tparla kif jaqbillek.
R. Gauci
Jan 13th, 09:39
30 sena ta' PN! Ma nistghax nimmagina l-arroganza li se tahkimna, back to the 80's immorru.
Ahjar johorgu mqar proposta wahda mhux imaqdru biss partit li ghandu l-guts jevolvi l-energija minn heavy fuel oil ghall-gass nadif u orhos, haga li kullhadd jaqbel illum jew ghada trid issir. Mhux ta' xejn kull min tisma qed jimrad bil-cancer.
Denis Pace
Jan 13th, 10:57
back to the 80's?
A good reason to vote PN
RONALD ARRY
Jan 13th, 09:37
are gaining confidence??so pn still has ta gian people confidence in the last weeks of election after 25 years in goverment, now the game is over rizzi naudi gain it in the opposition the slow confidence
j brincat
Jan 13th, 09:36
Oh! So he is standing on the PN ticket so what do you expect him to say?
jb
victor caruana
Jan 13th, 09:31
Another Prophet?
Please choose the reason of your report below: