Joseph Muscat to announce ‘fair society’ policy – tweet
Labour leader to announce social impact assessment policy for major government decisions.
Labour leader Joseph Muscat has tweeted he will announce his 'Fair Society' proposal today evening, as fellow party officials and candidates joined a Twitter stream on hashtag #afairsociety this morning.
"Today I will announce how a New Government will commission Social Impact Assessments on major economic decisions #afairsociety - JM" - Muscat said at 11:01am.
MaltaToday was told Muscat plans to launch a policy decision to have all major decisions by a new Labour government to be vetted in the form of a social impact assessment.
The policy will be formally announced at 6:30pm at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, with a discussion panel composed of youth studies academic Andrew Azzopardi, social worker Prof. Angela Abela, gerontologist Marvin Formosa, and Emanuel Darmanin.