Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening that the electorate should not try labour for the sake of trying something different, as the country's economic future may be put at risk.

"Look around you and you can see what is happening", he said, referring to the tough economic situation in many European countries.

"Over the past years Joseph Muscat wanted us to do like Cyprus but this would have meant bankruptcy," Dr Gonzi said.

Describing the PN's electoral programme as one based on job creation, Dr Gonzi said that past Nationalist administrations had proved themselves when it came to work and economic prosperity.

He said that the government intended to continue to invest heavily in job creation with special attention to new niches including in manufacturing and cutting edge industries such as pharmaceuticals and digital gaming.

Dr Gonzi said that on the contrary, labour's programme did not propose any concrete measures on work and instead Labour wanted to invest money on the wrong priorities such as a new power station which the country did not need.

Taking advantage of the fact that the activity was being held at Palace Square  in Valletta, the prime minister said that in the past five years the government implemented tens of projects in the city changing the face of the capital and giving it the attention it deserved.

Addressing the undecided, who Dr Gonzi said were many, he said that they should make a simple choice between a party which had a solid track record and created an economic boom or try an untested party (labour) with nothing to offer apart from dangerous experiments at the cost of the tax payer.

He said that the recent episodes involving Pl deputy leader Toni Abela showed that Labour may have changed its wrapping but was still the labour of the past.