1. Muscat: ‘Do not fear change’
Updated 8.05 p.m. The Labour Party beamed its slogan Malta Taghna Lkoll across Grand
Harbour onto the Senglea bastions this evening ahead of a rally at Valletta Waterfront. Labour
leader Joseph Muscat told the supporters during the activity that Labour wanted to transform
the enthusiasm within it into new energy for the country. Standing in front of supporters waving
US-election-style placards with the campaign logo and theme, ‘Malta for all’, and ‘Muscat
2013?, the Labour leader traversed Malta’s political history from Manuel Dimech’s dream of
nationhood to EU membership in 2004. Dr Muscat said he wanted to humbly recall the Sette
Giugno victims, the achievements of Nationalist Party founders Fortunato and Nerik Mizzi, the
day Maltese football supporters sang the national anthem in 1954 – immortalised by poet Ruzar
Briffa, Independence, – the republican constitution of 1974 and the departure of the last British
forces in 1979. He insisted that each of the political milestones was achieved by the people.
“They belong to no one but the people,” he said. At no time during his 30-minute address did
Dr Muscat refer to the Labour Party by name, extolling instead a sense of nationhood…
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