Car parks motion needs to be tackled with urgency - Muscat

The Opposition expects the House Business Committee to treat with urgency its motion calling for the car park tenders to be withdrawn since the tender was closing on October 26, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this morning. Speaking in Lija, he said that the tender was grossly irresponsible in that it was proposing a monopoly without setting any parameters for charges. Labour believed in a free market and that more competition should be created but it was not in favour of the creation of new monopolies. “We want to safeguard consumers. We do not want the people to have another burden,” he said adding that the PL was proposing solutions because those who created the problems could not solve them. Lawrence Gonzi, Dr Muscat said, had taken over the Nationalist Party and made it unrecognisable for many Nationalists, including EU Commissioner John Dalli. In such a situation, Labour had to continue to be united and open, more than ever before. The movement had space for everyone and should be the natural choice for the disillusioned Nationalists who no longer recognised their party. It should be the natural home of all Maltese and Gozitans, including those, who once were part of the PL...