PN: Muscat is ignoring country’s major safety problem

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat chose to completely ignore the serious safety situation which Malta is facing, the Nationalist Party has said.

In a press release in response to an interview the Prime Minister had this morning, the PN said that residents of Marsa, St Paul’s Bay, and other places, are continuously worried about the lack of security, even when in their own homes.

The Prime Minister, the PN said, had also failed to comment on the fact that homicides in Malta have unfortunately become something which the people have become accustomed to.

The Nationalist Party would do everything necessary from the opposition to ensure that the country returns to being safe, the party said.

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In response to the PN’s statement, the Labour Party said that, as a statement of fact, 2012 was the year which saw the most homicides in the last ten years, with there having been 10 cases with 12 victims. This was the last year of a Nationalist administration.

Opposition leader Adrian Delia was trying to turn a case of murder into a political game, and the fact that he tries to bring politics into everything which happened in Malta was shameful and condemnable, it said.

It was apparent, the PL added, that the Nationalist Party had not, and would not, heed the people’s message against undue exaggeration and politicisation.

Delia’s arguments made no sense, it maintained, and were intended to appease the establishment which insisted on being negative.

By doing so, he was losing everybody’s support, and it would be better if he instead started leading the opposition, the PL said.