Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is a hypocrite for judging those who are pro-life, PN MP Edwin Vassallo said in Parliament today.

"The Prime Minister calls out pro-lifers as hypocritical and says they have double-standards, but it is him who is a hypocrite for bringing foreign workers to Malta and letting them live in inhuman conditions," said MP Edwin Vassallo.

Vassallo reflected on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's speech last Sunday, where he called out hypocrisy of pro-lifers arguing that they are not showing compassion towards migrants. 

Vassallo quoted Muscat who said that "there are those who beat their chests during Id-Duluri and cry out about abortion and the death of the unborn, whilst those people at sea are human lives too."

"There was no reason why the Prime Minister had to go and call these people hypocrites and I completely disagree with the choice of his words." He said that it is simply unfair that the Prime Minister labelled pro-lifers as carrying double-standards and to believe that these people do not have compassion towards these migrants coming to Malta.

He said that it is the government and Prime Minister who is a hypocrite in his words. He said that last Sunday, Prime Minister Muscat told the citizens of Malta that without foreign workers, Maltese employees would be out of work and that foreigners are paying for pensions.

"This puts the Prime Minister in an ambiguous stance; he is telling us that without foreigners we would lose our work and that they are paying our pensions, if this is true than there is something wrong in our country."

Vassallo said that the Nationalist Party always respected the lives of people, that of the unborn and those people fleeing their country. He also said that the Opposition never used the words pushback, but it was leader of the Labour Party Joseph Muscat, who had began mentioning the term pushback when it came to migrants.

"The problem Maltese have with the issue of foreigners is that these people are coming to Malta and working as slaves. People are living in overcrowded residences, and we have no idea how the intake of foreigners will increase and whether we even have space for them."

He said that he agreed with the Prime Minister when he said that there are issues which are not simply "black or white" but have grey areas, but said that when it comes to abortion you are either in favour or against.