100 days of a ‘new’ government: Labour marks the continuation of 13 years of failure

• Labour’s ‘new’ Government is nothing more than the old Government with a new term — a Government carrying the sins of its predecessor
• In its first 100 days, it continued resisting the implementation of the recommendations of the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
• Robert Abela ended up being warned by a judge that he was placing partisan interests before the national interest
• He did not even manage to implement half of the legislative reforms he promised for his first 100 days — an absent Prime Minister. A Prime Minister on holiday
• While Labour celebrates being in power, people continue paying the price for the State’s failures, lack of planning, incompetence and lack of accountability

Today, the Labour Party will try to sell its first 100 days of this legislature as a new beginning. But for the Maltese and Gozitan people, nothing has changed, because the problems people faced before 30 May are the same problems they face today — with the same excuses from the same tired Government that has been in power for 13 years. This is a government carrying the sins of its predecessor. People have now realised just how far their own aspirations are from the project Robert Abela had in mind.

In 100 days, our country once again experienced prolonged power cuts. For yet another summer, the Labour Government left families in the heat and darkness, elderly and vulnerable people worried, and businesses concerned about products, equipment and income they ended up losing. The compensation that was promised has still not reached those who paid the price for the Government’s lack of investment and planning.

At the same time, Mater Dei Hospital remained under pressure and overcrowded, while the Government’s digital systems failed, with consequences for MATSEC results, MyHealth, the Courts, taxation services and the Companies Register. After 13 years, Labour still cannot guarantee basic public services that work when citizens need them.

The situation on our roads continued to deteriorate. Since 2013, the number of vehicles has increased by around 140,000, despite hundreds of millions of euros being spent and slogan after slogan on transport. Families are losing more time in traffic while the Government remains without a serious, long-term mobility plan — but apparently the most important thing is that Robert Abela has told us that many Maltese people now have a boat.

The immense pressure on people, on the country and on our infrastructure — the result of an economic model introduced by the Labour Government without consulting anyone — will continue to be felt. Robert Abela’s own words in recent days have made it clear that there is no intention to control population growth. On the contrary, according to Abela, the population will continue growing by 14,000 people every year. This is the same model that survey after survey has shown is driving us towards a wall.

The cost of living continued to squeeze families, while house prices increased by almost 7% in a year. At the same time, central government debt rose to €11.7 billion — €540 million more than a year earlier — while the deficit between January and July reached €552 million. This is not investment in a better quality of life, but an ever-growing bill that the Government is leaving families and future generations to pay.

The Government is also creating serious doubts about the new national airline. While it invested €350 million in public funds in KM Malta Airlines and spent more than €2.5 million on consultancy fees, the Government is leaving taxpayers in the dark about their investment by continuing to conceal the national airline’s accounts. The Government is comfortable spending the people’s money, but is not prepared to be accountable for it.

For more than half of these first 100 days of this Government, the country was following a trial concerning an assassination which the same Labour Government was found to have enabled through the creation of a culture of impunity. During the trial, we heard about the obscenities taking place at Castille — from naked people to criminals walking in through the front door as though they owned the place. Some of those who were at Castille then are still there today — and one of them is now the Prime Minister of our country. We now have a verdict which acquitted Yorgen Fenech of the charges relating to this assassination.

This is the same Government that granted a pardon to the middleman, the same Government that met criminals at Castille, and the same Government that, for years after the assassination, allowed Daphne Caruana Galizia to be vilified and allowed candles and flowers placed in her memory to be repeatedly removed. This is the same Government. And each and every one of the Government’s 42 Members of Parliament today carries the weight of this assassination.

In its first 100 days, Robert Abela once again chose to place partisan interests above the national interest and refused a parliamentary debate, requested by the Opposition, on the implementation of the recommendations of the Public Inquiry. Further evidence of the extent to which his interests come before those of the country emerged when a judge sent a sworn letter to Abela’s Cabinet concerning the appointment of the Chief Justice, accusing him of giving greater importance to political considerations than to the interests of the people.

The Partit Nazzjonalista continues to insist on justice for Daphne, for her family and for the entire nation. The Partit Nazzjonalista will continue working for a free country, a country that is not afraid.

The Partit Nazzjonalista will continue insisting on a government that works for the people — a government that plans for them. It will continue to be an Opposition that demands accountability, that places quality of life before propaganda, and that serves as the voice of the people in the face of a Government that continues to forget them.

Above all, these first 100 days have highlighted how Robert Abela’s Labour Government failed to implement important legislative reforms that it had promised to enact during the first 100 days of its ‘new’ Government. On 2 July, at the conclusion of Labour’s Extraordinary General Conference following the last election, Abela promised seven legislative reforms that were supposedly going to be implemented by today. Yet he has not even managed to deliver half of them. These include IVF reform, legal protection for parks and open spaces, reform of planning appeals and the establishment of the National Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

Throughout all this, we have seen an absent Prime Minister. A Prime Minister on holiday. And while Labour is now focused on celebrating, people are still waiting for these laws to be introduced. Just as they are still asking to have electricity in their homes, to avoid being stuck in traffic and to be able to afford to buy a home.

This is not a celebration of 100 days of a new Government — because the problems people faced before 30 May are still there.

This is a celebration of another 100 days of a Government that, over 13 years, created new problems and has made it clear that it has neither the plan nor the will to solve them.

At the end of these 100 days of a ‘new’ Government, Labour is marking the continuation of 13 years – and three legislatures – of failure.

06.09.2026