The Nationalist Party is set to announce its first batch of general election candidates next month, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said yesterday.

Interviewed on Radio 101, Dr Busuttil said the party was working hard to regain the trust of the electorate so it could not leave such a decision to the last months of the legislature.

Under his leadership the party was making a break from the past on various fronts, including by restructuring its commercial arm and overhauling the party’s political structures, he said.

He fended off criticism that he was not being assertive enough and that the party had not changed since last year’s general election landslide defeat.

Asked whether he would heed some of the criticism from those arguing in favour of a reshuffle in the shadow cabinet, he said he would not shy away from doing so “when the time is right”.

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