Central Elections C’ttee disqualifies Arab parties
The committee said the bans rest on claims that the parties and candidates rejected Israel’s Jewish and democratic character or backed armed struggle.
- On Wednesday, Israel's Central Elections Committee voted 31-4 to disqualify Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh from the October 27 election, accepting claims that he supported armed struggle against Israel by a terrorist organization.
- The petition focused on an October 8, 2023, article where Abu Shehadeh described the Hamas-led massacre as an "important historic event." Under Israel's Basic Laws, candidates supporting armed struggle against the state are barred from the Knesset.
- Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, the committee chairman, broke with decades of precedent to vote for Abu Shehadeh's disqualification, stating he found the evidence "sufficiently compelling" to warrant departing from his customary neutrality.
- Separate votes on Wednesday resulted in the disqualification of the Joint List and Ra'am following petitions from multiple parties. These committee decisions are not final and require Supreme Court approval to take effect.
- Legal challenges to these exclusions are expected to reach the Supreme Court next week. Adalah, the legal center representing the parties, announced it will contest the committee's votes during judicial review.
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The Central Electoral Commission of Israel voted in favour of excluding the major Arab parties from the parliamentary elections to be held in October, and the Central Electoral Commission of Israel voted in favour of not allowing the main Arab parties to participate in the parliamentary elections to be held in October, following appeals by the right-wing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote Bloomberg. The United Arab List (RAAM)…
Israel election panel votes to disqualify Arab party, two candidates
Israel's Central Elections Committee voted on Wednesday to disqualify an Arab party and two left-wing lawmakers from running in the October 27 election, amid mounting tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continued restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza and plans for settlement expansion in the West Bank.
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Noticias ao MinutoThe Central Electoral Commission voted to disqualify Hadash-Taal, Raam and two Arab candidates. The decision is still before the Supreme Court next week.
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