The Nationalist-led Swieqi local council fulfilled only 33 per cent of its electoral manifesto, said Malta Labour Party leader Alfred Sant yesterday.

Addressing a news conference in Swieqi as part of the local councils election campaign, Dr Sant listed a number of unfulfilled promises made by the Nationalist Party for previous local elections.

Dr Sant said six years ago, PN councillors promised to team up with the private sector on a project to build a public hall, the council’s administrative offices and sports and recreational facilities in Keffa Street. Until 2004, said the Labour leader, the project was still unfulfilled.

At the same election, said Dr Sant, the PN promised to develop a civic centre for Swieqi. The centre was to house the council’s offices, a library, post office, police station and polyclinic. However, said Dr Sant, today there was only a Lm7,000 plan which was not even approved by the council.

In 2004, the PN councillors promised to organise activities for the young and encourage them to take part in religious, socio-political, educational and sports activities. Dr Sant claimed that no activities for the young took place in the last three years.

During the same campaign, said Dr Sant, the PN councillors promised to create recreational spaces for families and children, a Youth Centre Project at Hemel Street, a Christmas concert and a circular bus route, however, these never materialised.

Dr Sant promised that the Labour councillors would present a motion to appoint a committee which would address social problems and exert pressure on the council to find a solution to the problem of parking in the locality. The Labour leader also promised that councillors would push for a new civic centre and a programme for resurfacing of streets and building of pavements. Labour councillors would also put pressure on the central administration for a new school to be built in Pembroke.