Former Nationalist MP Ray Bondin is openly supporting Alternattiva Demokratika's candidates for the European Parliament, Arnold Cassola and Yvonne Ebejer Arqueros.

In a video posted on YouTube, Dr Bondin said there was a need to think of an alternative to the monopoly of the two popular parties, referring to the Green Party.

The Unesco expert on cultural heritage and former head of the Valletta Rehabilitation Project recently had a scrape with the Resources Ministry over a proposal to build an underground car park in front of the Grand Master's Palace which houses Parliament.

Last year, he insisted that he had left politics and should not be dragged into the political debate when former Labour Party leader Alfred Sant mentioned him among a group of people who had left the Nationalist Party.

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