The government's head of communications took the Maltese people "to be fools" when he swept governance concerns under the carpet and instead denigrated Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil, the Nationalist Party's executive president has written. 

In an opinion piece titled 'Corruption has a spokesman', Ann Fenech hit back at Kurt Farrugia, who yesterday published a column of his own in which he gloated about Dr Busuttil's imminent departure, calling it 'A great week for politics'. 

"Farrugia speaks as though the Maltese public is an ignorant species. He takes us to be fools, and that is hugely insulting," Dr Fenech writes. 

"His duty as the 'head of government communications' funded by our taxes is to impart proper information to the public and to transmit an image of decency on behalf of the government.

"Yet he believes that his duty is to launch a personal and scathing attack on the Opposition leader and to turn the truth right over on its head." 

In the retaliatory piece, Dr Fenech revisits various concerns raised about the Labour government's lack of transparency, from unannounced trips to Azerbaijan to the Panama Papers affair and subsequent investigations by the FIAU. 

She criticises Mr Farrugia for what she says is his attempt to "airbrush" bribery accusations at the highest level of government and dismisses his "attempts to humiliate [Dr] Busuttil" as laughable. 

"[Mr] Farrugia and his boss are in for a big surprise," Dr Fenech concludes.

"I believe Busuttil needs no title or status to keep up his crusade against corruption. And he will fight Castille’s corruption relentlessly until justice prevails."

Read Dr Fenech's opinion piece in full.