Expect worse from PN, Muscat warns

Labour Leader Joseph Muscat warned people to expect worse and more negativity from the Nationalist Party as the March 9 electoral appointment approached. Speaking in Hamrun this evening, he said Labour would not enter a mud-slinging contest and would not even get its hands dirtied with mud because it had important and concrete proposals to offer citizens a better future. "Those who have opted for a negative campaign have no issues to talk about and also nothing to comment about our proposals." "We will leave mud-slinging to others. I'm expecting worse. We do not even want to touch mud and we will not let anyone pull us into this trap. We have the luxury to resist this because we have proposals that affect people and their bread and butter issues," he said. He mentioned unemployment figures issued today which showed that the unemployed had increased for the 11th consecutive month. "The situation on unemployment is worse than it was at the beginning of the legislature," he said. CEMETERY FOR PETS Dr Muscat said a Labour government would develop a pet cemetery and would embark on an information campaign for Malta to become more animal friendly. He said that although animals could...