Prime Minister Robert Abela stressed on the importance of voting while stating that the Nationalist Party does not want people to vote “in order for them to do as they wish with the country.”

Addressing followers in Xewkija Gozo, Abela urged constituents to vote early in Saturday’s election as a “PN government would dismantle all the good that was done in Gozo and take the sister island for granted.”

“The time has come to no longer consider Gozo as simply another district that produces votes. Gozo is at the heart of our decisions, and we are not going to take Gozo for granted like the PN had done for years.”

Shifting to the stress brought on the island by the pandemic, Abela said that throughout every decision that was taken, “a tailor-made plan was made for Gozo in order to persevere through the challenges. I have always insisted that the incentives we propose for Malta will have a 10% increase for Gozo in order for the island to remain as resilient as possible.”

Abela then went on to state that throughout the past two years, Gozo saw the biggest increase in investment and work force market in the history of the island, posing the rhetorical question if the Gozitan’s want to throw all the hard work away by trusting a PN led government in Saturday’s election.

“The Labour Party’s manifesto has 53 proposals which directly affect Gozo, and around 300 proposals which indirectly affect it. This is double what the PN is proposing in the five iterations of its manifesto.”

Abela then said that a PN-led government would send Gozo’s economy back to the past and only a Labour government could secure the future of the island.

“A vote in favour of the Labour Party is a vote in favour of Malta and Gozo, a vote in favour of improving the green spaces in Malta and Gozo, a vote in favour of improving pensions and a vote towards the future of our country. If next Saturday we remain together, nothing will stop us.”