PN on Labour youth campaign – ‘Muscat opposed EU membership’
The Nationalist Party has poured cold water over Labour leader Joseph Muscat’s youth recruitment drive for the local council elections, by accusing him of having opposed EU membership in 2003.
“Muscat would do well to admit that when in 2003 Malta’s future was at stake, as we were faced with the crucial decision whether to join the EU or opt for Labour’s messed up ‘Partnership’ option, he was at the forefront scaremongering young people that membership will cause untold harm to their future,” the PN said in a statement.
“The Nationalist Party was working hard to make sure that Malta joins the EU; not least because young people would hugely benefit from EU membership. Young people, overwhelmingly, voted for membership and strongly rejected Labour’s campaign based on inferiority complex.”
The PN said it has always believed that the best recipe for Malta’s success is to invest in the younger generation. “Of course, Joseph Muscat would do well to realise that, every mudslinging campaign embarked upon by him and his party, a mainstay of Dr Muscat’s tenure, is a further obstacle to young people participating actively and freely in politics.”