The Labour leader was taking the easy way out by pledging to resign if he did not deliver the promised cuts in water and electricity bills, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said.

The PL’s promises could endanger our country’s finances

“It’s easy to say you will resign if the project does not happen. But by then it will be too late… and then he will just walk away… The skill lies in making the right choices in the first place,” Dr Gonzi told a crowd who gathered for a Nationalist Party political meeting in Dingli last night.

“We are very worried because the PL’s promises are showing they could endanger our country’s finances. We are being careful when talking about projects,” he said.

He cautioned that, if the country did not have money, everything would collapse.

He also criticised the delay of the PL in coming up with its energy proposal, which includes slashing utility bills by getting a private investor to build a new gas-powered power station and a gas holding facility.

“Not even a dinosaur takes five years to be born,” he said adding that the proposals had been discredited by experts.

The programme of the PN was centred around working to keep making Malta more competitive in various sectors, he said.

“What we decide on March 9 will place the country in the hands of a government that needs to create 30,000 jobs,” he said, adding that the PN would deliver that number of jobs calculated on the number of students who would be graduating over the next five years.

Speaking about trade unions, he said unions should work in the best interest of workers and not take a position depending on a political party. He referred to the pro-Labour General Workers Union and said the PN would be taking up the recommendations made in a report put together by the Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin.