Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscatis a Maltese politician who has been Prime Minister of Malta since 2013. Muscat has been leader of the Labour Party since 6 June 2008, and he was Leader of the Opposition from 1 October 2008 to 10 March 2013. Previously he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008...
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There was a limit to how much a government could reduce its spending, but a Labour government would invest more in key areas of the economy that yielded growth, such as tourism.
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Our families are not guinea pigs on whom we can experiment
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Politicians cannot shake off responsibility and then when something is successful they take the merit but when something goes wrong they blame the workers.
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We need a prime minister who is more preoccupied with his country than with his party
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We will give the opportunity to individuals and companies with genuine information on political corruption to come forward with the details
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What I am saying is that people are not robots. One cannot simply dictate that tariffs increase whenever the price of oil increases. For me, the role of the state is to sustain people to remain productive
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Those who collaborated and gave information on the involvement of politicians in corruption would be given protection and would not have action taken against them.
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It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.
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Lawrence Gonzi is constantly taking the wrong decisions to the detriment of the Maltese and is not interested in tackling problems seriously
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Under Labour's plans, the Maltese Government would expect politicians and responsible individuals to pay back the money to the Maltese people.
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Being gay is not a defect, not a sickness or something bad. Gay people have a right to a dignified life,
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If I were the Prime Minister responsible for the next budget, I would introduce a maximum tariff rate that would remain stable for the whole year, thus giving a guarantee that irrespective of oil prices, the tariff will remain the same
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If I were Prime Minister instead of Gonzi, I would not have introduced the crazy utility bills
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If I do the usual things, we will get the usual results, which means losing another election and, with it, the chance to bring about change in the country,