Opposition Leader Alex Borg criticised the 2026 Budget, saying it “forgot people’s realities” and failed to provide a clear direction for Malta’s future. “A budget should serve as the roadmap that shows where the country is heading and how it plans to get there,” Borg said, adding that while money affects how people live, “it is not everything.”
Borg stated that although he acknowledges good measures when they exist, this Budget “left too many people behind” and “does not respond to the structural problems” faced by Maltese and Gozitan families — including pressure on healthcare, the cost of living, traffic congestion, and population growth. He said it ignored quality of life and meaningful investment in mental health, offering “no solutions to those who are suffering.”
“Today, we live to work, not work to live,” Borg said, describing this as a “serious social problem that, for this Government, seems not to exist.” He highlighted challenges such as mental health, youth emigration, unaffordable property prices, and long hospital waiting lists.
Borg concluded that the Partit Nazzjonalista wants “an economy with heart and for the heart” — one that “feels for people and forgets no one.”
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