One year into its second term, Malta’s Labour-led government was showing that its electoral battle cry that the country’s best days were yet to come was true, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Sunday.

In a brief telephone interview aired on ONE radio, the Prime Minister highlighted Malta’s chart-topping GDP growth and unemployment figures and said he was convinced that growth could be sustained.

The country was doing better now than during the government's first legislature, he said. 

Dr Muscat said that he was pleased to see that the PL was already implementing parts of its electoral manifesto, and said that thanks to Malta’s robust economic growth, the government’s first post-electoral budget had been a positive one.

“We didn’t introduce a single tax,” he said.