Mental health, and people facing challenges in this area, are the latest victims of Robert Abela's silly season, the Nationalist Party said Tuesday.

Only a few months ago, when Robert Abela resurrected the promise of a metro after having previously said it was not feasible, his own Finance Minister described it as a result of the silly season in the run-up to an election.

Now Robert Abela has once again revived a promise that the Labour Party had made in its last two electoral manifestos and had then completely buried - that of building a new hospital for mental health care, the PN said.

So deeply buried was this plan that Abela's Government had chosen, instead of building the hospital near Mater Dei as it had been promising for years, to develop a number of wards within Mater Dei itself to provide mental health care.

After stringing people along in 2017 and 2022, it now appears that this promise will once again be copy-pasted into the Labour Party's next electoral manifesto, the PN added

It is shameful that Labour continues to treat everything and everyone as nothing more than a vote. It is now crystal clear that, despite the many words and the vast sums of public money being spent on PR, mental health is not a priority for this Government. Further evidence of this is the neglect in which Mount Carmel Hospital has been left.

Health is not a joke and should not be a victim of the silly season so that a Government which has failed time and time again can cling to power. People deserve far better, the PN said.