Eve Borg Bonello entered political life as an activist promoting good governance, the rule of law, and democracy.

[1][2] The 2019-2020 protests were a watershed moment for Borg Bonello, after delivering an impassioned speech that garnered 160,000 views,[3] around half the voting population of Malta (c.340,000 as of 2017).

She accused then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of stealing her future, a line attributed to climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The speech attracted praise and derision in equal measure, as well as several death threats from supporters of the ruling Partit Laburista.

[4][5] The death threats led to several prosecutions, including a €1,500 fine for a woman who commented on Facebook, "As long as I'm alive, I won't leave you in peace, not even in your grave as I'll shake it everyday.

[10] For 3 weeks, Borg Bonello and other students protested outside Parliament during sitting days to pressure MPs into disembarking a group of 450 migrants who were detained offshore in the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In 2022, in anticipation of the general elections, Eve Borg Bonello was approved as the youngest candidate in the country's history for the Maltese House of Representatives.

As President of Team Start, Borg Bonello led a number of high-profile actions to protest the Maltese Government's inaction against corruption and institutional abuse.

[13] Later that month, Team Start staged an action outside the national broadcaster after research revealed a strong pro-government bias, with almost all airtime being given to the incumbent Labour Party.

[14] In February 2022, Team Start set up a mock pop-up office to decry Prime Minister Robert Abela's extortionate government direct orders against rising inflation.

[15] "We live in a sexist, misogynist Mediterranean culture, so we need something radical to propel women forward and support them to represent half the country.

[15] On the gender quota mechanism, Borg Bonello wrote in an op-ed for the Times of Malta, "But what we really need is a culture that attracts women to politics.

"[17] In February 2021, Eve Borg Bonello criticised junior minister Rosianne Cutajar after failing to resign after evidence of large cash deals emerged with Yorgen Fenech, the business magnate charged with successfully plotting to assassinate journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Reacting to Cutajar's post, Borg Bonello rebutted that "my words didn't express hatred or spite, although it's undoubtedly a tactic to interpret all criticism as such.

[20] In 2021, Borg Bonello posted a satirical photo showing herself in a clean-up initiative at Fort Chambray, Gozo, organised by Team Start captioned "walking back from Kastilja [Office of the Prime Minister]".

The barb was met with comments calling her "elitist human trash", hoping she would be "blown to pieces", alluding to the fate of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.