Ministries offering jobs 'starting Monday' to win votes, Adrian Delia claims
PN suggests PL 'wants to do everything in its power to get votes'
Ministries are calling people and offering jobs that start at once, ahead of the election, PN MP Adrian Delia said on Thursday.
Delia was clarifying a statement made at the start of a PN press conference when his colleague Ian Vassallo said the Labour Party had been trying to buy people off in the first days of the electoral campaign.
“In a case I’m familiar with, one person received a call and was told he could start work on Monday and only bring his ID card and a pair of safety boots," Delia said.
“This person had applied for the job a long while ago and what they didn’t know is that this person can no longer do that job,” he said.
The former PN leader said that the particular ministry did not even take the time to check what had happened to that person because “they were too concerned with their goal to acquire his vote”.
He added that several ministries are "doing their best" to carry favours to get votes.
During the PN’s Thursday afternoon press conference, PN mental health spokesperson Ian Vasallo began his speech by saying that the PL is trying to “bribe people” in the election, before eventually re-listing the health sector proposals that the PN has been announcing since Tuesday.
Asked to provide further detail to that opening statement, Delia, who was sitting by Vasallo’s side, stepped in.
Besides the promise of government jobs starting immediately, Delia pointed to the Labour Party’s proposals themselves which indicate that it "wants to do everything in its power to get votes".
“Our baby bond proposal means that we invest €5,000 in a child in a bond, and when they turn 18 or 21 years old that money will have doubled, trippled or even more than that”.
“On the other hand, the PL are saying they will just give a cash grant of €5,000.... The PL wants to give you something in order to receive while the PN wants to invest in you in the long term”.
He said the PL is creating a reality in which people need to ask the government for help to get by.
"The PN want you to be in a situation that you do not need the government's help".
Delia said the PN have the people's long-term interest at heart while the PL want to do everything in its power to get votes.