Energy and Health Minister Konrad Mizzi and his wife Sai Mizzi Liang this afternoon filed libel proceedings against blogger and columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia over a story which alleged he is having an affair with his communications coordinator.
Ms Caruana Galizia alleged in a post that Dr Mizzi is seeing former Super One journalist Lindsey Gambin.
Ms Gambin also filed libel proceedings.
The post, which was uploaded this morning, was titled: "This is the Super One journalist Konrad Mizzi has been seeing and the reason his wife left for China".
Dr Mizzi and his wife as well as Ms Gambin claimed that the article was libellous and aimed to tarnish their reputation, apart from being unfounded and untrue.
Lawyers Aaron Mifsud Bonnici and Abigail Critien signed the libel application for Dr and Mrs Mizzi while lawyer Alex Sciberras signed for Ms Gambin.