The most important values on which the Nationalist Party will be basing its electoral programme remain work, health and education, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this afternoon.

Addressing party activists, Dr Gonzi said that the party’s executive met yesterday to discuss the electoral manifesto.

This was not the electoral programme but guidelines on the PN’s policies and the direction the party wanted to give.

The party will now start building its programme with concrete proposals based on the guidelines in the manifesto.

Dr Gonzi thanked the activists for their work for the party and for being there through the good and the bad.

He said that after the President dissolves Parliament on Monday morning, the electoral campaign will kick off and the PN will be holding a rally in the evening.

The party now had to inform people of the choices available and explain what the proposals, policies and values on which it was basing its plan for the next five years were.

The most important, he said, would remain work, education and health.

What the party expected from its activists, he said, was their usual enthusiasm.