As we face the last few days of this campaign, I am taking the time to meet people who are refusing to vote or are still undecided.

Their main argument is that PN hurt them during its time in government. Not enough time has passed by for them to forgive, let alone forget. These cases are very time-consuming during home visits but it is time well spent. Perhaps this page could help me spread the message further, not just to the constituents of the 8th and 12th districts.

As the prominent entrepreneur Winston J Zahra put it in his heart-felt, eloquent and inspiring post on Facebook on Wednesday: “The up-coming election is not about PL and PN. It is not about Joseph Muscat or Simon Busuttil. The collective decision that we take as a country will ultimately define us as a nation going forward. Its impact will be akin to that when we gained our independence and when we voted to become part of the EU.”

Or, as a highly respected artist put it during a home visit in Balzan: “This is almost like a referendum: Do we or don’t we want a corrupt country? This is make or break.”

If Muscat and his corrupt trio get back into power, what exactly is our message?

We would be saying “Yes!” to corruption, to secret accounts in Panama, to money laundering... All the abuses of power we had to put up with during last four years – from the very first week of Muscat as Prime Minister.

If, on the other hand, we choose Malta and Forza Nazzjonali, led by Simon Busuttil, we would be saying “Yes” to an honest effort to bring about change. A much needed change to clean up the mentality that “anything goes”.

It would not just be a change to clean up our politics. It would be change for a new Malta: governed differently, using everyone's talents.

A Malta whose democracy is brought into the digital age, where you don't need to join a political party or organise a referendum to put forward proposals for new legislation.

A Malta whose economy can bank on its reputation. Whose government will invest in new economic areas not in shady deals. Whose environmental beauty will be seen as contributing to prosperity, not shackling it.

Once again I quote Winston J Zahra: “Our decision will define our future. We will either roll out the red carpet for our politicians to run riot, despite their promises, or we can send a message that we have a zero tolerance approach to the type of behavior that is totally unbecoming of an Island that in the past has proudly punched above its weight for all the right reasons. Our politicians represent us as a people and their behaviour, as ultimately accepted or rebutted by us, the people, reflects the basis of what we consider to be right and wrong.”

Faced with such words of wisdom, can anybody look the other way?

Worse still, have those who “freely” chose to act as testimonials to Joseph Muscat, understood what he really stands for, what he represents? Are they aware that they are not backing the Labour Party but a gang that hijacked the party?

All the propaganda, slogans and messages are built on josephmuscat.com which represents Muscat himself, of course, and his cronies.

This time round, a vote for Labour, or an abstention, simply means that you are closing your eyes to and condoning “blatant wrongdoing simply because we have more money in our pocket.”

Muscat is seeking to buy votes by dangling a lot of carrots. His entire approach to politics is to wager that voters can be bought.

I conclude with more from Winston J Zahra: “My vote will be based on standing firm behind strong principles and morals that we should all be proud to uphold as a population. Corruption in our political class has to have a zero tolerance response from us all. We should not accept it now or anytime in the future irrespective of political beliefs. Our institutions have to be totally independent and left to work in serenity at all times for the sake of our own serenity. This should never have to be questioned or even debated. Our democracy and our democratic values have to be protected in their totality. If we let matters slip through the net now we will be giving a very clear message that our democratic values have no value and that is a very slippery slope that we will all ultimately live to regret.”