Labour leader Alfred Sant is not concerned about the future of youths and workers and is not interested in their having a good pension when they retire, the Nationalist Party said in a statement.

The PN said Dr Sant wants the pensions reform to be halted until after the election without saying what would happen then except for an experts’ conference and a congress. This position is inspired by political opportunism because the MLP is afraid of losing votes if it takes a stand.

When Dr Sant was prime minister he had commissioned a report and accepted that the issue needed to be addressed. Now, in Opposition, the MLP was saying that the matter is not urgent because it did not want to lose support, the PN said.

The report the MLP had commissioned in 1997, New Initiatives and Projects, had suggested that the pensionable age should go up to 65.

With the current stand to “freeze” the issue, the worst off will be today’s workers and youths, the PN added.