Alternattiva Demokratika has welcomed the Green Paper on poverty and social exclusion but called for concrete measures including a revision of the minimum wage.

Social policy spokesman Robert Callus said AD repeatedly expressed concern over the rise in poverty and material deprivation rates, through calls for policy initiatives to help vulnerable groups and promote greater social justice.

“It has also been the only party that repeatedly called for a rise in the minimum wage as a tangible measure to combat in-work poverty, to make work pay and encourage greater active inclusion,” he said.