Nationalist Party says Muscat lied about Working Time directive
The Nationalist Party yesterday accused Labour leader Joseph Muscat of not saying the truth when talking about the Working Time Directive during an online debate with Lawrence Gonzi.
It said in a statement that contrary to what Muscat said, when the directive regulating the 48-hor week started being debated in the European Parliament, two of the three Labour MEPs abstained when asked to vote on whether workers should be allowed to choose how much overtime to work over the 48-hour limit.
The vote concerned an amendment to the report not to allow workers to work more than 48 hours each week.
The Nationalist MEPs voted to allow workers to decide for themselves, whether to work over the 48 hour limit.
In its statement, the PN said this was not the first time the Labour leader tried to “twist matters”.
“An example was when he said that 2,000 jobs were created. The facts were that 7,000 jobs had been created while 2,000 were saved. He had said the three Labour MEPs voted correctly on immigration when each of them voted differently. And he insisted Malta was a net contributor to the EU when it was a net beneficiary,” the PN said.
The party added that Labour was reiterating “the old lie” that the government would not allow free healthcare, and that it had selectively edited a speech by PN candidate Alex Perici Calascione on hunting to suit the party’s purposes. “Muscat acted like an unethical journalist,” the PN said.
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