[attach id=238467 size="medium"]Labour leader Joseph Muscat being interviewed for Fis-Sustanza last night. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli[/attach]
Labour leader Joseph Muscat yesterday warned his listeners to expect more negativity from the Nationalists as the March 9 election approaches.
Labour would not enter a mud-slinging contest and would not even get its hands dirty with mud because it had important and concrete proposals to offer citizens a better future, he said.
“Those who have opted for a negative campaign have no issues to talk about and also nothing to say about our proposals. We will leave mud-slinging to others. I’m expecting worse.
“We do not even want to touch mud and we will not let anyone pull us into this trap. We have the luxury of resisting this because we have proposals that affect people and their bread and utter concerns,” he said.
He said the monthly unemployment figures had shown the 11th increase in a row.
“The situation on unemployment is worse than it was at the beginning of the legislature.”
Labour was pro-business and would give the private sector the space to work. This in turn would lead to the creation of more jobs.
Speaking during an interview on One TV’s programme Fis-Sustanza which was recorded in Ħamrun, Dr Muscat said a Labour government would develop a pet cemetery and embark on a campaign for Malta to be more animal friendly.
Although animals could not vote, his party did not cast them aside.
Referring to recent incidents involving the crucifixion of cats in Mosta, Dr Muscat said this was “pure ignorance” and had to be tackled with a proper education campaign.
Dr Muscat acknowledged that many Labourites and even genuine Nationalists had suffered injustices in the past years. While promising to correct them, he warned that this would not be solved by creating more injustices.
“If we did not want to do things differently, we wouldn’t have embarked on this vision. Tribal politics leads to extinction. It has caused too much damage to this country. The choice is between the PN which has degenerated into a clique and the PL which opened up and became a movement,” he said.
Deputy Leader Louis Grech spoke about jobs and on how Labour was targeting to reach a 75 per cent employment rate, equivalent to around 192,000. At present this figure stands at 153,000.