PN guarantees the future - don't throw it away' - PM
PN guarantees the future - don't throw it away' - PM
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening that although some people may be angry that the PN didn't manage to deliver all their wishes, they should still make sure that the country continued to move on a safe and sound course.
Addressing a very well attend party activity at the hometown of the PN's icon Eddie Fenech Adami, Birkirkara, Dr Gonzi said that the PN was promising another five years of tranquillity where opportunities for more jobs and education would continue to flourish.
"I know that out there are people who may feel disappointed with us because we didn't manage to give them what they thought they had a right to. However think again as the future of this country depends on making the right choice on March 9," the PM warned.
Referring to the new funding package negotiated by Malta with the EU for the 2014 - 2020 budgetary period, Dr Gonzi said that despite the tough economic scenario, Malta still managed to convince the other EU leaders that it needed more money to continue to move forward.
"It was very difficult to negotiate but we ended up with a very good €1.2 billion package which will mean another quality leap forward for this country."
Dr Gonzi said that unlike the Labour Party, which, he said, is presenting an electoral wish-list and promising everything to everyone, the PN already knew where it wanted to go and how EU funds would be spent.
He said that while labour wanted to throw away people's money by squandering it on a power station the country did not need, the PN wanted to boost investment in education, healthcare and more jobs.
Dr Gonzi appealed for another PN mandate as he said this would be the only guarantee for the country to continue to prosper.
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Carmel J. Caruana
Feb 14th, 06:05
Scare them Gonzi' is on the scarepath again! Lowest form of politics when solid, intelligent arguments are lacking. What a bore.
Michael Magri
Feb 12th, 17:26
Dear Prime Minister.. No.. The Majority of the Maltese and Gozitans alike, are NOT throwing our future away, but on the contrary and in order to realy strengthen our future, we are just simply Throwing GonziPN & Klikka Away.. Got It...!!!
steven micallef
Feb 12th, 12:44
can you please tell me how much is the net or the gross?then we know the results
Dolores Galea
Feb 12th, 11:00
Dawk in-nies li jafu jaghrfu bejn l-ahjar ghal pajjizna u le se jivvutaw PN fid-9 ta' Marzu
James Micallef
Feb 12th, 10:28
PN track record on economy is OK but what about social and governance issues? On divorce, still living in the past, same with women's rights and gay rights. What about improved governance? Whistleblower act?
And who are they kidding when they say they are going to lower taxes AND balance the budget without reducing social services? Think people can't count, that why the focus on education? :)
Emanuel Farrugia
Feb 12th, 09:39
PN guarantees the future BUT for GONZIPN friends irid jghid Lawrence Gonzi. Veru minghajr misthija.
Emanuel Farrugia - TARXIEN
joseph tabone
Feb 12th, 09:33
ser nipiccaw bi gvern lejburista ditatur ghax kullhadd ser jivvotta lejber
Leonard Brincat
Feb 12th, 10:06
Kemm sirtu negattivi f daqqa wahda. Ha mmutu kolla bil guh issa mil ghada ta l elezzjoni Malta ser tispicca. Grow up my friend
C. Bartoli
Feb 12th, 20:38
@Leonard Brincat mela insejt x gara fin 1996 u tajdliex li mohhni fil-passat ghax l-istess nies li bazwru malta fin 1996 ghadhom mal lejber u jistaw ikunu ministri. Imnalla salvana mintoff ghax il-lejber tilef ir-ruh socjali u sar tas-sinjur. Mela lili ghax noghod attent se jifrankali 100 fis sena u min ghandu fully airconditioned villa bil heated swiming pool jifrankalu 3000 euro! tajeb eee!
Joseph Buhagiar
Feb 12th, 09:24
Dr. Gonzi tell the people the truth - we will respect you for it. The truth. The EU is not a charitable institution. Say how much we have to pay back over the coming years and that it is our duty too. Stop treating us like kids. Fight corruption and listen to what Dr. F. Adami. said too. Say you want to know who that AG and Aust is. This should be your business too.
Giocchino Attard
Feb 12th, 09:12
What future?Look where are we now worst country in eurupe with all the corruption that surrounds you, wow it's only the tip of the iceberg.
M Grima
Feb 12th, 08:57
"PN guarantees the future - don't throw it away' - PM!
Tell that phrase to the Dockyard workers, Airmalta workers, Seamalta workers and the Go Malta workers Dr. Gonzi! Along with so many others you have tricked these people with the thousands of letters which you sent them just before the last elections. You promised these people heaven and you gave them hell, and you expect them to trust you?
Anthony Grech
Feb 12th, 08:53
I am one of the people out here who feel disappointed with you GonziPN not because I didn't manage to get what I thought had a right to but because you and your ministers took what was not yours EURO 600. However I thought again as the future of this country depends on making the right choice on March 9, and the right choice is Voting for a new Fresh Government that will unite us ALL Maltese.
M Grima
Feb 12th, 08:51
What baffles me is the way some nationalists believe everything that Dr. Gonzi tells them. I mean, they have every right to their opinion, but surely these people know what's right from wrong. I am sure that they acknowledge the fact that GonziPN has failed badly. They should ask themselves what other nationalists have asked: why so many have left the flock?
Amanda Sciberras
Feb 12th, 11:15
Yes they know whats right and wrong ( I think ), they are just FANATICS, still believe li ha nkunu fid dlamijiet eterni u kastigi jekk jitla l Labour party... still brain washed!
pat muscat
Feb 12th, 08:47
This GonziPN's lament shows the deep crises its party is going through: lack of credibility, internal divisions, and offering nothing but 'more of the same'. Adieu!
M Grima
Feb 12th, 08:46
So, Dr. Gonzi, you are the guarantee for the future? If the future is anything I have experienced in the recent past, then would you expect me to trust you again? I am sick and tired trying to make ends meet, I am sick and tired having to witness the rampant corruption around me and I am sick and tired to see you making a mockery of the values which my mother and father have taught me.
Lawrence Fenech
Feb 12th, 08:26
You threw the guarantees away years ago Gonzi, remember Dockyard workers, Air malta employees, Seamalta employees , the ruin of Valletta entrance, half backed theatre and a pigeon hole building the scandal of BWSC the 500 euros per week for 2 years behind our backs, iz-zmien tac-cwiec u imzazen il GonziPN biss jemmen fihom saqsi lil Tonio Fenech.
Eddy Privitera
Feb 12th, 08:24
Did you tell your supporters how you would be funding the gas pipeline once you now know that the EU will only contribute €63 million - 9% of the project which is estimated to cost around €770 million ???
The more you try to SCARE voters, the more you convince that IT IS YOU AND THE CLIQUE who are scared of what could be revealed by a new PL government !
Joseph Buhagiar
Feb 12th, 08:21
Dr. Gonzi, Fenech Adami has our respects always. But the PN today - You dumped on to us not just income tax 35% and VAT 18%. but a host of indirect taxes, the highest water and electricity bills ever ...a gas cylinder 19 Euros,, Wardens in the hands of a private company that police the streets for MONEY!....you invented every revenue stream to squeeze every penny out of us .......you have to go
C. Bartoli
Feb 12th, 20:41
u dan l-affarijiet mhux ha jzommhom il-lejber, minn fejn se jgib il-flus il-lejber biex iżomm il-weghdi li qed jghamel.
Jason Inguanez
Feb 12th, 08:21
What is it exactly that the PM wants us to hold on to?
A fragmented party falling to pieces?
A net of corruption?
I think the PM has already thrown it away by not being able to control his ministers' arrogance and greed for power!
Vincent Mercieca
Feb 12th, 08:10
Dr Gonzi, I am very concerned about my future. I want a better future than I had in the past few years.
That is why on March 9 I am going to vote PL for the first time in my life to get rid of you and your clique.
I heard you also say that you do not want to be a leader of the opposition.
Well there is another solution than winning the election. On March 10 submit your resignation as party leader
P Micallef
Feb 12th, 08:02
Significant is the fact that when mentioning EU funds Prime Minister Gonzi made no reference to the funding of the gas pipeline. It is now known that the EU is prepared to fund only 9% of the total cost of this project which makes the PN proposal not feasible unless the PN has in mind to increase again the water and electricity rates.
Ronnie Callus
Feb 12th, 08:00
I can't understand what future you are mentioning.Future where Malta was over filled with corruption in a number of sectors ?Old age people being robbed also in the light of the day? Out of stock medicine when one has the right to collect for free? Precarious jobs? Arriva transport taking you around the villages and make you arriving late on work ? Power station working with heavy fuel oil ?Debt ?
Matthew Calleja
Feb 12th, 07:58
Dr.Gonzi at least from all the jobs you mentioned you could have always avoided IT ....Smart City! Which was one of your promises to many people. Your plan for the past five years have failed, you did not mention the amount of debt that Malta has got to the crowd infront of you but only directing people to other countries which have failed due to bad management. Let's look for other the better.
susan matrenza
Feb 12th, 07:43
The art of scaremongering at its best. Its unbelievable how the Dr.Gonzi is not realizing that this negative attitude cannot reap results. I had hoped he would come forward and explain the reasons for the mysterious proclama and what do A.G. and Aust stand for?
Joseph Borg
Feb 12th, 07:26
We need the power station Dr Gonzi, cause there are thousands of Maltese breathing the filth that the power station that YOU have built is throwing out. For these people, the reduction in tariffs is irrelevant as nothing can be compared with health.
effie stafrace
Feb 12th, 07:01
what future? what prosperity?if the past is the mirror of the future,then god help us.two recessions in four years.5000million euros deficit and out of control,our main distribution electricity company in the verge of bankruptcy, cost of living spiraling out of control and last but not least the rampant corruption blessed not by the pope who is resigning but by the prime minister himself.
Carmel J. Caruana
Feb 12th, 06:36
Can Dr Gonzi please explain to us how it is that after he managed in the past to get all these millions from the EU we still ended up over 5000 million in debt? I would have expected a healthy surplus no? The improvements we have seen over the last 5 years don't cost that much. What is the point of getting millions (and with strings attached I'm sure) if it's not spent wisely?
Eddy Privitera
Feb 12th, 08:30
Carmel J Caruana: The reason why national debt kept increasing despite EU funds, is because EU MEMBERSHIP IS COSTING MUCH MORE THAN THE EU FUNDS WE ARE RECEIVING ! This is why Dr. Gonzi has never ordered a COST - BENEFIT ANALYSIS to be carried out as Dr. K. Mifsud Bonnici has been challenging him to do for years ! I have given details many times.Check Eddy Privitera in Times on EU funding.
Carmel J. Caruana
Feb 12th, 06:35
I take my decisions according to evidence and the evidence indicates without a shadow of a doubt that the PN administration has been hopeless in balancing the budget, has squandered our hard earned cash, left our children an enormous debt and includes too many get-rich-quick schemers.I hope JM wont disappoint us if elected but the GonziBusuttilPN gang certainly have.
Thomas Anderson
Feb 12th, 06:34
PN guarantees the future. What future maybe the one where a Prime Minister gives himself a 600E raise behind everyone's back, or maybe the future where corruption reigns supreme and no one takes political responsability or maybe a future of broken promises and bad decisions or a future of political instability where opponents of the regime are shred to pieces on blogs.
Vote PN and get GonziPN
David Triganza
Feb 12th, 06:32
The spending or, let's put it this way, squandering of our money is the fundamental reason for kicking an administration out of office and electing a new one! U mhux hekk Dr Gonzi, arani ser nerga nivvotalek.
Carmel J. Caruana
Feb 12th, 06:31
'Scare them Gonzi' is on the scarepath again! Lowest form of politics when solid, intelligent arguments are lacking. What a bore.
M. Grech
Feb 12th, 06:25
Dr Gonzi tries to scare us, as if we were kids, telling us that if PL governs this country all hell will break loose! Do you believe him? I only believe facts, that is, the emails that are being presented in the media.
alexander grech
Feb 12th, 06:05
Too late Gonzi.Tkomplix teqred ghal vot ta dawk li Int u l klikka tieghek weggajtu.Jien dejjem hallast it taxxi ,il VAT,il bolol l kontijiet bla razan tad dawl u l ilma imma mhux dan kelli bzonn.Kelli bzonn permess ta parapett u damu sentejn jilghabu sakemm kelli nghalaq u dak il kazin tal PN TA HAL QORMI LI HADTULNA u li hu tghana
bl abjad fuq l iswed u bil ligi.Ma nsejniex.BYE BYE GONZI PN.
Carmel J. Caruana
Feb 12th, 04:08
Dr Gonzi your mismanagement of our finances ARE THE MAJOR PROBLEM we face The national debt that YOU accumulated is driving us into a wall. How about telling the people the truth which is that they and their children will have to pay for YOUR 'hela u tberbiq'. I am very much certain that if you are elected the national debt will become higher still.
Joe Grech
Feb 12th, 01:33
PM the EU is in financial straits, and people doubt if the Eurozone will survive. Still they gave Malta a generous package but will the PN, if elected, make good use of it? I doubt that since you went on with the Ruin of the environment, Overbuilding to please speculators, Overspending, Not collecting VAT, Rental dues efficiently, allowed Corruption & Inefficiecy even in the courts. Deny this!
Joseph Gatt (il-Bovju)
Feb 12th, 01:31
This man is truly unbelievable. He is either in denial as to the actual state of the country or he really believes that the people are actually stupid.
Joe Grech
Feb 12th, 01:19
P.M. stop deceiving people into thinking that all hell will result if PL will win the election. You have no real reasons to support your cunning political statement.
How can you declare that under you we ''moved on a safe and sound course''? How can you ''promise another five years OF TRANQUILITY'' WHEN THE LAST YEAR WAS ANYTHING BUT THAT AND WE DID NOT EVEN HAVE A WORKING PARLIAMENT?
J Cauchi
Feb 12th, 00:06
Gonzi watch what you say as things are getting clearer
And clearer and you cannot make us out as fools.
Joe Fenech
Feb 11th, 22:20
What a pompous and preposterous thing to say!
M. Bezzina
Feb 11th, 22:18
Fejn taf titpaxxa thares madwarek!!
Noel Borg
Feb 11th, 22:06
PN guarantees the future don't throw it away', Is our PM really that detached from reality? I mean, honestly, can't our Prim Minister feel the pulse of the people? It's so surreal for me. Throw away what dear Prim Minister? the daily corruption cases? the intransigence and arrogance of the political elite within PN? Can't our PM read the feelings of the people? It's too late now Mr PM , too late.
M Briffa
Feb 11th, 21:51
Your time expired Gonz...we need a change...
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