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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post WEDNESDAY • 31 MAY 2017 • ISSUE 538 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY PAGE 3 ELECTIONS DAYS TO GO 3 Busuttil: 'Let's clean up country's name' Labour government has turned your hospital into a clinic, Busuttil tells Gozitans at mass meeting TIM DIACONO CONVEYING a message of "hope" PN leader Simon Busut- til accused Labour of embark- ing on a "fear-mongering cam- paign" to scare people off voting for the 'Forza Nazzjonali' coali- tion. Adressing the thousands who gathered for a mass meeting in Gozo, Busuttil said "we are here to spread a message of hope." "Let us write a fresh page in our history books together, clean up our country's name and once again feel proud to call ourselves Maltese." Busuttil also warned the party faithful "don't let anyone scare you, don't let anyone cause you to lose hope, and don't let any- one extinguish this torch of hope because once hope is lost, then everything is lost," he said. Reaching out to Gozitan vot- ers in Victoria, Busuttil said that the Labour government has turned their hospital into a "clinic". "A Gozitan woman told me today how angry she was at the way her late husband had been treated at the Gozo Hospital," he said. "She told me that, in the past four years, the hospi- tal has effectively been trans- formed into a clinic. People are paying a bitter price for this government's corruption, and Gozitans realize this better than anyone. You used to have your own hospital, and now you don't." PAGE 5 PAGE 4 Labour voters more likely to attend mass meetings JAMES DEBONO THE size of mass meetings is a poor indication of the support enjoyed by rival parties simply because PL voters tend to participate in higher numbers in these party rituals than PN vot- ers. While 39% of respond- ents who will be voting for Labour in the next elec- tion attend mass meetings, only 29% of PN voters do likewise. Respondents participat- ing in the latest Malta- Today survey were asked whether they have attend- ed mass meetings in this electoral campaign. The result of the survey explains why attendance at Labour Party mass meet- ings tends to be greater than that at PN meetings. Simon Busuttil with partner Kristina Chetcuti in Gozo Muscat: Those that feel the country has moved forward have an obligation to vote ISSUE NO. 75 | MAY 2017 THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE KAMRA TALPERITI NEWSPAPER POST FREE PRIME Minister Joseph Muscat has said that those who believe the country to have "moved forward" over the past four years have an obligation to vote for the Labour Party in next Satur- day's election. Speaking at a rally in Qor- mi, Muscat warned against complacency on the part of Labour leaning voters. Referring to comments by PN leader Simon Busut- til, that he wanted to have a "Labour-proof " govern- ment, Muscat insisted that this meant that a National- ist government would "for- get" anyone associated with the party. Joseph Muscat