Watch out for Labour’s ‘strange alliances’ – Gejtu Vella

In an interview with weekly newspaper Illum, Nationalist Party candidate and former UHM secretary general Gejtu Vella warned workers of what he described as a "dangerous" informal alliance with the Labour Party and the Malta Employers' Association.

In the interview, Vella maintained that despite the Labour Party's founding principles as a workers' party, the party leadership's proximity with employers, especially on issues such as the minimum wage, is "dangerous and does not augur well for every sector."

Vella delivers ominous warnings of what he maintained would be "serious consequences" that workers and students are likely to face should Labour be elected to office.

He insists that reports prepared by Labour economist and MEP Edward Scicluna are proof positive of Labour's stand against wage increases, adding that such reports also betray Labour's doubts over the validity of the stipends system.

Read the full interview in Sunday's edition of the Illum.