While passing on a Mother’s Day message Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech asked people to tell their mothers that they love them, and “put aside [their] differences before it is too late.”

Visibly emotional, Grech spoke about how this is his first Mother’s Day without his mother, who passed away in January.

“Don’t miss the opportunity to be next to your mother, to talk to your mother, to tell your mother you love her,” he said.

He took the opportunity to praise the mother of Jean Paul Sofia, who has not stopped fighting for a public inquiry into the death of her son so that she can know the truth and so that, hopefully, no mother will ever have to experience what she has experienced.

“She has the right to have the serenity… and to know the truth of what took place.”

Grech said this during an interview with party media on Sunday morning where he spoke about the hospitals’ concession agreement, the high cost of living and out-of-stock medicines.

When mentioning the official complaint the PN presented to the police to investigate everyone that was involved, including Prime Minister Robert Abela, in the hospitals’ concession agreement, Grech noted how a week has passed but Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa “has still not done anything.”

“The police commissioner knows that for years he has been doing nothing.”

Talking about the hospitals’ deal further, he asked the question “Since this deal has the health sector improved or worsened?”

He said that people know the answer to this question, as people have experienced waiting many months for an operation and also not having access to medicines which are out-of-stock.

He said that although no investment was taking place, the government chose to continue defending them in court.

“Robert Abela’s government lost all direction.”

In relation to this deal, he mentioned how people within the Labour Party, such as former Labour Party councillors, activists, and PL MEP Alfred Sant, have spoken out against the party.

Grech mentioned how unlike the PL, the PN’s “heart is with the people,” and he promised to meet and talk personally to anyone who is struggling.

This leads him to speak about how the high cost of living is affecting people, however, the government is refusing to address this issue.

He said that although the PN has presented proposals, the PL does not want to address these.

Elaborating on the proposals he said mentioned how one of them would be not to tax the COLA, which is what the government is currently doing.

He added that before the war in Ukraine broke out, over a year and a half ago the PN had proposed a fund of €40 million, which was open to be increased, that would help cut the cost of importers and exporters.

“There are solutions, we have given solutions. We will continue putting pressure because we do not want you to suffer.”

When mentioning out-of-stock medicines he said that this is a serious problem and that the PN have proof of instances where medicines were available but the government did not buy them.

He said that there is a type of medicine used for chemotherapy which is not being bought anymore and has been out of stock for weeks now.