Prime Minister Robert Abela addressed a meeting of Labour Party supporters on Wednesday evening in Victoria, where he spoke about how Gozo has ”progressed greatly in recent years,” including with the “Island of Villages” strategy, noting that last year ”for the first time the Gozitan economy reached one billion euros.”
Dr Abela spoke about a series of proposals that make up the manifesto, including among others the hundred proposals for the Island of Gozo.
He stated that, ”you must be proud of the contribution you have made to this manifesto. The biggest manifesto of the Labour movement for Gozo. In it, the biggest chapter, is precisely that of Gozo. A chapter that was born here in Gozo. By a group of Gozitan youth who wrote this chapter with us.”
The Prime Minister said that four years ago, the Labour Party was given the best mandate in Gozo and that it will continue to work as one team that gives space to everyone and it is the people’s decision for the Labour Party to continue to make Gozo the engine of new prosperity.
“Give a new mandate to the Labour movement. Give a new mandate to me. Malta, and when we say Malta, Gozo too, comes first and foremost. This is how Architect Dominic Mintoff concluded his speech 65 years ago, in this Square. What was true then, is still true now,” he said.
Abela concluded by saying that ”the Labour Party is your natural home, Gozitans. So be with us again so that we can take Gozo to the next level. So that we can have a better Gozo, so that we can be with you every step of the way, Because you are Gozo, and Gozo is you, you are Malta, your dream, our project.”
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