The electorate should not try Labour for the sake of trying something different as the country’s economic future may be put at risk, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said last night.

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

“If Joseph Muscat were in government over the past years he would have wanted us to do as Cyprus did and that would have meant bankruptcy.”

Dr Gonzi was addressing a well attended party activity in Valletta.

Describing the PN’s electoral programme as one based on job creation, he said that past Nationalist administrations had proven themselves when it came to work and economic prosperity. A Nationalist government intended to continue to invest heavily in job creation with special attention to attracting new niches including in manufacturing and cutting-edge industries such as pharmaceuticals and digital gaming.

On the contrary, Labour’s programme did not propose any concrete measures on work and instead it wanted to invest money on the wrong priorities such as a new power station which the country did not need.

Taking advantage of the party’s presence in Valletta, the Prime Minister said that in the past five years the Government had implemented tens of projects in the city, changing the face of the capital and giving it the attention it deserved.

Addressing the undecided, which Dr Gonzi said were many, he urged them to make a simple decision of choosing between a party with a solid track record which had created an economic boom, and an untested Labour party with nothing to offer apart from dangerous experiments at the cost of the taxpayer.

Recent episodes involving PL deputy leader Toni Abela showed that Labour may have changed its wrapping but it was still the old Labour of the past.