The Nationalist Party will next week be focusing on health, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this morning.
Speaking at a political activity in Zurrieq, he said the PN was undertaking to complete the new cancer hospital and launch a massive fight against diabetes in the next five years.
Dr Gonzi appealed to people to protect, rather than risk, the gains made in the past five years by the Nationalist administration.
While unemployment in Greece stood at 27 per cent and in Spain at 26 per cent, 20,000 new jobs were created in Malta in the past five years and a Nationalist administration would create another 25,000 in the next legislature.
What the PN was proposing would finance itself from the wealth and jobs the administration would create and the country’s strong economy.
Dr Gonzi thanked all candidates of the fifth district 'who worked in the interests of families and not for their own gains'.
Labour’s electoral programme was still unknown and it had even been unknown to their former deputy leader. On the other hand, the PN’s deputy leader wrote the PN’s programme.
PN deputy leader Simon Busuttil said the PN realised it did not have a sacrosanct right to be in government or for the people’s vote.
It knew this was something it had to work for and it had already done so. It had given the people a good past and present and with their vote it would also give them a good future.
He invited the people to read Anglu Farrugia’s interview in The Sunday Times today saying that the interview’s headline ‘Political murder’ said it all.
The interview, he said, gave one goose bumps as it led them to realise what the PL was in opposition, let alone in government, could do.
He quoted Dr Farrugia in the interview saying:
“This is like calling your best friend over and then shooting him in cold blood. It was political murder.”
Dr Busuttil said: “If the PL did this to its deputy leader, what will it do to you. How can you trust him with your future?”
Dr Gonzi, Dr Busuttil and other speakers before them, congratulated Gianluca Bezzina who will be representing the Maltese in Malmo Sweden after yesterday winning Malta's edition of the Eurovision Song Contesr.
His participation will be a reflection of Malta’s talent, Dr Gonzi said.