The chairman’s personal assistant doesn’t want the press to intrude

It has just been brought to my attention that when the Ministry for Social Wotsit and Civil Liberties published a white paper on human rights and equality back in December (the purpose of white papers is public consultation in the pre-legislation phrase), the personal assistant to the executive chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology wrote in with her views.

“The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights state that everyone has a right to freedom of expression. However, there exists an absence of protection against press intrusions or disclosure in the media of details of an individual’s private life.”

She signs off as “Lara”.

I have uploaded a copy of her email here. I did not obtain it by illicit means – all white-paper feedback received from the public is published by the relevant ministry, as you can see from the link below.

Let us see if we have understood her correctly. Lara Boffa thinks that a woman who was the prominent billboard face of the political party that has formed the government has the right to enter into an extra-marital relationship with the chairman of a state council who is also a notorious and highly vocal politician who never refuses an opportunity to appear on television, in the process breaking up his 10-month second marriage which was purportedly the reason for his bringing a divorce bill before parliament and leading the Yes campaign in the divorce referendum, have him put her on the state payroll as his personal assistant, and all of this without any press scrutiny or media comment whatsoever.

The woman has no brains.

The chairman and his personal assistant on a flight to London – official business over the weekend