Sharon Ellul Bonici, a Labour Party (PL) candidate for the forthcoming European Parliament elections, yesterday filed a libel suit against Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas over comments made during a programme on Net Television on April 2.

Ms Ellul Bonici said Ms Metsola Tedesco Triccas (also an MEP candidate) was reported saying that Ms Ellul Bonici was in favour of introducing abortion in the country. This, Ms Ellul Bonici insisted, was untrue.

Ms Ellul Bonnici said she also felt libelled by Ms Metsola Tedesco Triccas' assertion that she had worked against the Treaty of Lisbon, which would give Malta its sixth European parliamentary seat.

The libel suit was signed by lawyers Andy Ellul and Vince Micallef.

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