The Labour Government has been helping families and businesses in the past years to address the cost of living, by implementing measures intended to go directly in people's pockets, a Labour Party statement read.

"A Labour Party in Government has gone beyond what it promised, and in fact subsequent Budgets have strengthened social welfare and energy subsidies in order to bear the burden."

"With the aid granted to date by the Government since Covid, households and businesses have energy price stability, a subsidy that in 5 years amounted to around €930 million in electricity and water bills, and the cost on petrol and diesel."

"The Stabbilità scheme addressing inflation, the additional cost-of-living benefit, the biggest tax cut in history, minimum wage increases, the signing of around 50 sectoral collective agreements in 3 years benefiting more than 29,000 workers, as well as the collective agreement for all civil servants, are among the other measures benefiting families to improve their quality of life."

In addition to these measures, a number of bonuses were given to families, it said.

Referring to a statement the Nationalist Party had issued regarding the cost of living situation, the PL said that the PN "is forgetting that the Labour Government incentives to businesses are double the amount that the Nationalist Party will give if it is running our country. While what the Government is currently giving in a year to our workers, the Nationalist Party would take four years to give an equivalent increase."

"The Nationalist Party has no credibility on this issue because it voted against all the Budget measures targeting the cost of living and social schemes. This vote means that the Nationalist Party disagreed with the Government's massive investment in energy price subsidies and wanted to deprive people of all other measures we are currently getting to address this reality. The Nationalist Party is trying to give the misleading impression that a Labour Government is not taking seriously the issue of the cost of living, while people know who really is sensitive and committed to addressing people's realities."