The people were getting increasingly disillusioned by the government’s performance, not least because the Prime Minister was not saying anything about two “espionage scandals”, Labour leader Joseph Muscat has said.

He told a political activity in Lija that Dr Gonzi had still to comment on how people’s personal details, given to ministries, were ending up in the possession of the Nationalist Party.

The second case, he said, was the theft of information at MITSS which had seen the electronic details of 20,000 persons stolen. The government, Dr Muscat said, had still not guaranteed that this information was not abusively used.

He said the government had still to set up a supervisory agency to ascertain that no one got unlawful access to other people’s e-mails.

Dr Muscat also accused Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt of 'lying' when he had said, before the election, that no sewerage tax would be introduced, and when he later said that the surcharge would be lifted if oil prices fell to $85 per barrel.