Leader of the Nationalist Party Simon Busuttil this morning appealed to TownSquare Project investors to revise their plans for a 38-storey tower in Sliema.

At the PN club in Mqabba, Dr Busuttil said that the PN, through its environmental policy document that was launched yesterday, would like "investors to revise their idea because the people are very disappointed and angry." He said that if the investors reduce the amount of storeys they will be showing the pubic that they listen to people's pleas.

Dr Busuttil also spoke about the government deal that granted a piece of virgin land at Zonqor point to a private Jordanian developer to build part of the American University of Malta (AUM) campus.  He once again appealed to investors not to touch this land and to listen to what the people are saying.

Dr Busuttil said that if the PN is elected to government come the next election, he will be ready to renegotiate the deal, save the land and give it back to the people.

The PN leader said that he might not be popular especially with certain people but he believes that the Maltese people deserve a good quality of life.

The environmental policy document is the seventh report that the Opposition has launched during the past four years, he said, "and this shows that the PN in government would be able to run this country on the right track." 

He slammed the current government, saying that over the past four years is showed that it is not able to run the country. "The latest example of this is the failure of the Air Malta and Alitalia negotiations."   He said that the PN had told the government from the beginning that this deal was not going to be good for Malta's airline. "Our country needs to have a national airline, and if you want Air Malta to remain the national carrier, the PN in government has the answers."

Speaking about the PN Environment Policy document, Dr Busuttil said that "today we are suffering the consequences of the government's lack of planning. The way Prime Minister Joseph Muscat treated the environment shows what his real values are.  This document gives hope that politics can be done in a different way".

He said that "money is important but it is not everything. Quality of air and our health are much more important." He added that "environment should be distant from politics so that it will not be used by politicians." He said that a long term plan should be in place so that "we can conserve what we have."

Dr Busuttil made reference to the number of press conferences that Justice Minister Owen Bonnnici gave over the past two weeks in which he accused shadow minister Jason Azzopardi of wrongdoing in the purchasing of Lowenbrau land by the Vassallo Group. "I never had doubts, but now I am happy that Jason Azzopardi showed that Minister Bonnici was lying all along. These are the tactics that the government will be using during the next general election. Mud will be slung and lies will be thrown at us." 

"I do not accept this strategy and my mission is for politics to be clean and that the PN will govern in the right direction."

The PN leader also supported his deputy leader Dr Mario de Marco for his courage and loyalty towards the party.

Present for this rally was Malta's former representative on the European Court of Auditors and former PN Minister Louis Galea.