With Joseph Muscat having taken over the leadership of PL several years ago from Alfred Sant, the hopes were high that the party would recreate itself around new and more up-to-date ideas than under the previous leadership. The former opposition of the party to join the EU for example is still there when one certainly can acknowledge the benefits Malta has gained from it, and I am not talking about the Labour MEPs.
With Joseph Muscat, one would have expected a clear social and economic program, vision and more important, leadership.
Unfortunately the exact opposite has happened.
The party has withstood every important changes to our society: the electoral system has remained unchanged, the party financing law is nowhere to be seen. No initiatives are taken to change these important issues. The same applies to civil liberties: the attitude of PL towards the introduction of divorce was farcical (“free vote”), the position on Gay Lesbians rights is very unclear, the solution for the influx of immigrants very populistic.
No real actions are taken in Parliament for the disastrous introduction of a new public transport system, no voice has been raised against the foreigners bus fees introduction. One can only admire the silence of this progressive party in the face of the financial storm of these days, the future financing of the social services, education. No solutions are shown for the diction of the deficit, the future financing of the health system and the attraction of investments to Malta.
There is no leadership within the PL. The country needs a new leadership, a vision, a change of the morose regime, political pluralism.
The country needs a Green change, Alternattiva Demokratika, the only party able to bring valuable changes to this country, socially, economically and environmentally.
