PM urges Labour youths to keep government on its toes

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has urged the members of the Labour Party's youth forum to keep the government on its toes when it comes to decisions taken about its promised reforms. Dr Muscat was addressing an extraordinary general meeting of the Forum Zghazagh Laburisti (FZL) which elected Alex Saliba as president and Nikita Zammit Alamango as vice-president. Mr Saliba called on those present to be the soldiers in the vanguard that the Prime Minister needed. Dr Muscat said the government would be carrying out reforms in the economic and the civil rights sectors. This included the introduction of civil unions. "We'll receive criticism and the FZL should make sure that the government does not go back on  its promises, and keep the government on its toes." Ambition had kept Labour  going, and the FZL should be ambitious and make sure the government remained ambitious, Dr Muscat said. The FZL should welcome the challenge that what its members said would influence the decisions taken be the government. It should even criticize the government if it felt that was necessary, he added. Dr Muscat said this was a decisive government: in the first 50 days it took decisions that had been...