The promise made by the Labour Party to remove cables and light poles from the facades of homes in villages did not materialise, the PN said in a statement.

PN chief Spokesperson Peter Agius and PN candidate Clifford Zahra Fenech said that in the PL’s 2017 electoral manifesto, the PL made the above promise and said that the cables would start being installed in culverts beneath pavements. “Nothing came of this. Not only, but of the €400 million spend on roads by the government, it lost an opportunity to plan the works in a way that would see the culverts created underground where the cables could pass.”

 The PN said that there was no incentive so that new private sector buildings would see owners create culverts in order for the cables serving them could be passed under the pavement. “The few cases where this did happen saw the owners fork out the funds themselves.”

“This is another classic case of the PL making promises that looked nice, but which they forget about days after an election.”

“A PN government would promise to implement this PL’s failed promise by starting the gradual process so that every new building would, systematically, see a system of culverts created where cables could pass, while conducting projects – beginning with the localities and roads that have the most dense cables, to create new pavements through public investment where culvers would be created to house all the cables.”