A Nationalist Party candidate who said that she would donate her government cheques to her party’s fundraiser has found herself on the receiving end of death threats as a result.

Eve Borg Bonello, who is 18 years old, said on Tuesday that she would be donating her tax rebate and cost of living cheques to the Nationalist Party, and appealed for many others to do the same.

The appeal was picked up by the Labour Party’s media house One News, with many leaving less than complimentary comments directed at the young electoral candidate.

However, some comments crossed the line more than others: one commenter suggested that Borg Bonello should use the cheques to “buy a rope so she can hang herself”, while another initially said that it’s good that the cheques are donated to the PN “so maybe they can pay off their debts” but then added to his comment by saying “I’d have sent you some cheque… or a Russian bomb instead.”

Borg Bonello shared the threats on her Facebook profile saying, “when I received thousands of threats at 16, I blamed it on the emotions of the dramatic situation at the time when a prime minister was forced to resign.”

Borg Bonello had received a multitude of similar threats some years ago when she was 16 and addressed a protest during the 2019 protests that followed Yorgen Fenech’s arrest in connection with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

“Today I realise there’s no real excuse, people will threaten you just because you’re not a Partit Laburista activist,” she said.

“We never learn, then we wonder why so many competent people stay out of politics,” she added.

Borg Bonello told The Malta Independent that she would be filing a police report on the comments later in the day.