Labour's mission has been and will remain to transform the people's aspirations into reality, Labour leader Alfred Sant said yesterday.
Addressing a meeting in St Julians, he said Labour will be creating conditions to improve the work and quality of life of the small self-employed, on whom many families depended.
Labour will reform the education system to get the primary and kinder sectors as good as the European system to improve students' abilities.
More money would be budgeted for these levels and the curriculum would be restructured for students to be better prepared.
Labour's reception class proposal would help achieve this. Children were currently losing out on their childhood because they had to learn a lot in a short period of time.
Although Maltese children were ahead when aged nine to 10, children in Europe would have progressed more by the time they were 15.
This was because those children would have had a better foundation.
Dr Sant referred to the Nationalists' claim that Labour's proposal of a reception class was a repeater class. The repeater was the PN's manifesto because it was full of promises that had been repeated from one manifesto to another, he said.
Referring to Malta's EU membership, Dr Sant said he had no regrets for the decisions he and his party had taken five years ago.
Labour, he said, had acted according to the principles of democracy and it was now respecting the decision the people had taken for Malta to join the EU.
On Mater Dei Hospital, Dr Sant said it had taken longer to build it than it took the knights to build Valletta.
And in spite of this, the Nationalist government had not realised that by the time the hospital opened it would need more nurses and doctors to run it.
Referring to the Prime Minister's smile, he said that although he did not smile as much, no one could accuse him of deceiving the people, as Dr Gonzi had done.
The enthusiastic crowd yesterday included Joe Said, a former PN supporter who has been levelling accusations at the government over various issues in recent weeks.