PM answers 1,200 questions through PN’s social media front

Addressing the Nationalist Party's general council, secretary-general Paul Borg Olivier said the Nationalist Party had strengthened its internal organisational structures to better its relations with the people.

"This has been one of the responsibilities which were vested upon me by the Prime Minister. Both on individual and local levels, the PN has strengthened its contact with the people through the ministers' and candidates' home visits and the AZAD meetings," Borg Olivier said.

Last February, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi launched two new initiatives, expected to buttress the forthcoming electoral campaign for 2013. He had appointed MEP Simon Busuttil as his special envoy to organise meetings within AZAD - the PN's think tank - in order to meet different social and economic sectors of civil society.

Gonzi had also instructed Paul Borg Olivier to organise meetings in different localities where government ministers and parliamentary secretaries would meet the public.

Borg Olivier said that these meetings were more open to constructive dialogue and that the party was adopting the ideas and opinions to strengthen its programmes.

"We are listening more," Borg Olivier said, as he lauded the PN's social media front, mychoice.pn.

"Through this initiative, the Prime Minister has answered 1,200 questions on all issues, including unemployment, health, salaries and education."

Borg Olivier also warned the councillors that the PN faced "an uphill struggle".

"We need the input of everyone as the road ahead of us is not an easy one. But we will succeed. We will continue to send a message of trust, even when at crossroads. Because it is there where you have to make a choice," he said.