Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this evening said that next month's vote would be a good opportunity for the electorate to give a vote of confidence to the Labour government to bring about more changes.
Dr Muscat was addressing a rally in Vittoriosa on the opening day of the party's campaign leading to next month's European Parliament election.
The sizeable crowd and the jubilant mood of those present did little to suggest that the PL would be the 'underdog' as Dr Muscat had claimed earlier today while speaking one One Radio.
He said that the Labour movement wanted to convey the message that Malta was the land of equal opportunity. The choice was between a party of the past that was resorting to scaremongering tactics and the Labour party which was the agent of change, he said.
The Prime Minister said that the PL was following the footsteps of people like Mikiel Anton Vassalli, Manuel Dimech, Dom Mintoff and even George Borg Olivier.
"The EU is not about stars on a blue flag but about equal rights for our children," he said.
Dr Muscat said that just a year after its huge victory at the polls, the PL was delivering on its main pledge to bring about change after years of conservative rule.
He said that the government was also delivering on its promises to reduce utility tariffs and legislate to eliminate discrimination through the introduction of civil unions. Dr Muscat also referred to the lowering of income tax, free childcare centres for all and the refund of VAT on car registration.
On immigration he said that the government scored a number of successes and referred to an agreement to repatriate Nigerian nationals whose refuges status request was turned down and not to allow children to be kept in detention.
The Prime Minister said that the government was also combating corruption through the introduction of the Whistleblower Act and removing time-barring on corruption. He backed his argument referring to the smart metre scam, saying that the government had uncovered this web of corruption which had been going on for years in Enemalta.
Dr Muscat said that he was not afraid to be judged exclusively on the government's track record rather than on European issues. He said that the PL wanted to remain positive and was bold enough to take decisions, in a dig at the Opposition following its abstention in the vote on the law to introduce civil unions last week.
In his speech Dr Muscat also sought to reach out to disgruntled voters saying that the government would ensure that it would look after each and every citizen. "There is no credible alternative on the other side of the fence," he warned.
The Prime Minister urged those present to help the PL become the first ever party in government to win the majority of votes in the MEP elections.