Ms Farrugia Portelli (left) had previously sued Ms Caruana Galizia (right) for libel.
Daphne Caruana Galizia worked hard to reinforce the narrative of Labour Party women being "monsters and whores", parliamentary secretary Julia Farrugia Portelli has written.
In a Talking Point published in Friday's Times of Malta, Ms Farrugia Portelli, who earlier this week was likened to a "village escort" in a Facebook post uploaded by Partit Demokratiku's official Facebook page, argues that attacks on women such as herself did not begin a week ago.
She writes that "Labour women have been at the receiving end of vehement attacks on their reputation for decades," and that it is all too convenient to slam PD - "whose neophyte leader apologised immediately" - without acknowledging the bigger picture.
Ms Farrugia Portelli argues that Malta's first female president, Agatha Barbara, "was called all sorts of negative names" and notes that Ms Caruana Galizia had "gleefully described her as a 'butch dyke'".
Ms Caruana Galizia, she goes on to say, played a significant role in the vilification of Labour women, encouraging the view that they were dim, were incapable of becoming politicians and "also made bad lovers, bad wives and bad mothers."
She writes that despite having won a libel suit against Ms Caruana Galizia, the court judgement had not mended the damage to her reputation the defamatory comments caused her.