As Sandra Gauci Set To Become New ADPD Leader, She Pledges To Lead ‘Party That Listens To Everyone’
Deputy Chairperson and MEP Candidate Sandra Gauci is set to be elected as ADPD’s new leader tomorrow in the upcoming leadership elections, which she will contest for alone.
This comes after current party leader Carmel Cacopardo stated that he will not be contesting for the next leadership position for the ADPD.
Ahead of the election, Gauci has pledged that ADPD will be the party that will listen to everyone, while also naming a number of social issues such as the rising cost of living, construction, and infrastructure, that she is committed to.
“We will be a party that listens to everyone, not just businessmen, as we have seen in recent years with disastrous consequences not only for the country but also for the quality of life of many Maltese,” Gauci pledged yesterday.
“As the third party in Malta, we will continue to work closely with people humbly to regain hope in a better future, a future that we, as ADPD, can guarantee because we don’t have any lobby that changes our minds,” she continued.
“We only have the good of the people at heart; the common good that is understood in a wave of individualism and rampant selfishness, where those who have health and money succeed at the expense of those who are less financially secure and even the friends of friends.”
She continued to say that Malta is going through a period of change, and it’s clear that people are getting fed up with the usual politics.
“The country’s economic plan must decrease its dependence on construction at the expense not only of people’s quality of life but also their enjoyment,” she stressed.
“We need to be a country that offers services, especially in technology, where in the digital and digitized era, we can develop and provide jobs to professionals and demand specific qualifications, and we will not continue to focus on unskilled work that pays low wages.”
She also spoke of the chaos on our roads, saying that it’s “the result of a significant lack of planning in infrastructure that has not always been done with consideration and modern requirements of a world that is increasingly moving away from private car use and towards alternative modes of transportation”.
She continued by stressing that we need a road-sharing policy where other means such as bicycles and e-bikes would have the space to navigate our roads.
“Politicians should be role models for every citizen and inspire the citizenry. Accountability, transparency, and equality should be the foundations on which we build this wave and regain hope in the people who almost lost it.”
Do you think Sandra Gauci’s leadership can bring change to this country?