As a newspaper article reported the Nationalist Party ahead in an opinion poll on Gozo, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech launched into a scathing attack on the government.
Speaking at a party event in Għajnsielem, Bernard Grech told supporters that the government had failed Gozo and its people. What happened to the promised new hospital for the island he asked.
If elected to government, Grech promised a Nationalist government would add a fourth ferry to the cross island service, maybe even a fifth ferry.