Sharon Ellul-Bonici is a

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politician. Sharon Ellul-Bonici has been a member of the soft eurosceptic Maltese Labour Party. She tried to obtain her party's endorsement as a candidate for the

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, but was turned down for her hard eurosceptic links. Ellul-Bonici was at the time active in pan-European organisations such as

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and

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. The party's vigilance board feared that – once elected – she could join Europe of Democracies and Diversities rather than the

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group. For the 2009 EU election she was fielded on the Labour Party list, but not elected to the European Parliament. She has been the founding secretary-general of the European Alliance for Freedom, a eurosceptic pan-European party, established in late 2010, and led by former UKIP europarlamentarian

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. Sharon is married to Kevin Ellul Bonici.

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