Opposition Leader slams government for ‘robbing’ taxpayers

Prime Minister Robert Abela had just announced €26 million in tax refunds “to workers and pensioners” to start being paid next week.

Both Grech and Abela were speaking at the Workers’ Day activities of their political parties on Monday afternoon.

Abela said the time had come for a “major reform” in planning and construction, further claiming that environment, affordable housing and living standards were Labour’s priorities.

The meeting took place in Valletta, with a mostly older audience packing the area between the beginning of Republic Street, Freedom Square and the City Gate.

Similarly, the Nationalist Party’s protest in front of the PBS building at Gwardamanġa was mostly attended by supporters from an older demographic.

Bernard Grech said that the Labour government has forgotten the very people it was meant to represent, as record inflation was hitting low-paid workers and pensioners.

Grech: People behind Vitals were ‘crooks’

Grech said Abela had signed a “devil’s pact” with disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat, in order to ensure his own ascension.

This was why Abela was “compromised”, and this was why he tried to give the impression he had nothing to do with Muscat, the PN leader said.

Speaking about the hospitals privatisation fraud, Grech said that Muscat, Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri all knew that the people behind Vitals were “crooks”.