Esther Bernabela is a doctor and politician from

Bonaire Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west ( leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC i ...

. She is an independent member of the Island Council of Bonaire. In the 2017 election, Bernabela joined a coalition of elected members of the

Bonaire Patriotic Union The Bonaire Patriotic Union ( pap, Union Patriótiko Boneriano, label=Papiamentu, UPB; nl, Patriottische Unie van Bonaire) is a Dutch local political party in the special municipality of Bonaire. History In the 2002 Netherlands Antilles general ...

(UPB) and the

Bonaire Democratic Party The Bonaire Democratic Party ( pap, Partido Demokrátiko Boneriano, label=Papiamentu, PDB; nl, Democratische Partij Bonaire), also known as Demokrat, is a political party in Bonaire and formerly the Netherlands Antilles. History The party wa ...

. This replaced the previous 2016 coalition that she was a member of. A former leader of the UPB, she declared herself an independent candidate in March 2016, and withdrew her support from the party in April. However by 2021 she had re-joined the party. In 2020 she spoke out against the rise in prostitution in Bonaire. She has previously worked for the International University School of Medicine.

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