The Nationalist Party said today that Joseph Muscat's first year as prime minister was characterised by his stubbornness.

It said the prime minister was stubborn when he tried to adopt migrants' push back, when he ploughed on with the citizenship scheme, and when he was continuing to insist that it was better to berth a gas tanker inside Marsaxlokk Bay rather than offshore, in defiance of what experts and the people were saying and what was done abroad. 

"A year after the general election, the prime minister had isolated himself  from the people and is only listening to himself," the PN said.