The government delivered more accessible and national parks.
Project Green has delivered real green-space gains — but headline park promises remain pending and a fresh round of park promises is now being made for 2026.
Project Green has delivered real green-space gains — but headline park promises remain pending and a fresh round of park promises is now being made for 2026.
Project Green has delivered measurable activity. Between 2022 and 2024, Malta gained more than 325,000 square metres of new or regenerated green open spaces; 28 projects were completed in 2023-2024 alone. The Censu Moran-style hub model has been mirrored in green-space planning, with new parks like the Bormla garden (replacing the AUM dormitory project), San Ġwann regeneration, St Anne's Floriana and Floriana Pinetum advancing. But two qualifications matter. First, several headline park promises from the 2022 manifesto remain incomplete. Second, an Amphora Media analysis found Project Green initiatives clustering in the PM and Environment Minister's electoral districts. And the 2026 PL manifesto is now making a fresh round of park promises — itself a tacit acknowledgement that the previous round was not fully delivered. The claim has substance, but it isn't a clean win. Mostly True.
Did Labour really deliver more accessible national parks
'Wettaqna dik il-ħolma' — we delivered that dream — is a strong line. The dream in question is national parks, more accessible green spaces, and a greener Malta. Did Labour deliver?
What Project Green has actually done
Project Green is the Maltese government agency tasked with the open-space programme. Its publicly-reported numbers across the legislature:
- 2022-2024: 325,000+ sqm of new or regenerated green spaces opened to the public
- 2023-2024: 28 projects delivered (18 public spaces + 10 valley regenerations)
- End-2025 target: 20 projects (130,000 sqm) completed; another 20 started
- 2024-2025 tenders: €5M for Għaxaq Picnic Area, Mqabba Family Park, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq Park
The list of projects in motion includes the Bormla garden (replacing the controversial AUM dormitory plan), the San Ġwann regeneration project, St Anne's Street in Floriana, and the Floriana Pinetum gardens. Health centres in Gżira, Birkirkara, Qormi and Rabat have all been refurbished, and the bereġ in Gudja, Fgura, Pietà and Birżebbuġa give a similar 'green-and-services-near-home' shape to primary care.
The qualifications that pull the verdict back
Two pieces of context complicate the simple 'we did it' framing.
Some headline promises are still pending. Several of the 2022 manifesto's most prominent national-park commitments are incomplete or have been quietly rolled into longer pipelines. The 2026 PL manifesto is now making a fresh round of park promises — a tacit acknowledgement that not everything from 2022 has been delivered.
Distribution flagged as uneven. An Amphora Media investigation in 2025 found that Project Green initiatives cluster heavily in the PM's and Environment Minister's electoral districts. Whether that is coincidence or strategy is a separate question, but it complicates the claim that the programme has been a uniform national rollout.
So is the claim accurate?
The 'more accessible green spaces' part is broadly correct on the numbers. The 'national parks' part is where it gets weaker — the headline national-park promises from 2022 are still partly outstanding, which is why the 2026 manifesto is making them again.
Verdict: Mostly True. Real delivery, real gaps, fresh promises that themselves admit the gaps.