Yair Lapid, Sami Abu Shahada, Ahmed Tibi and Ayman Odeh (Flash 90 photo/ Gideon Markowitz, Olivia Pitosi, Yonatan Zindel, Facebook/ Sami Abu Shahada)
The hearing on Belad’s appeal will be held before a special panel of nine judges, led by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut. In the panel: Vice President Uzi Fogelman and judges Solberg, Barak-Erez, Baron, Mintz, Elron, Willner and Grosskopf. The petition will be presented on behalf of Bel. D. Lawyers Hassan Jabarin and Adi Mansour from the Adalah Center.
After the legal adviser to the government, attorney Gali Beharve-Miara, had already informed the chairman of the election committee, Judge Amit, that her position was that Balad should not be disqualified, now it remains to wait for the Supreme Court’s decision. The reasoning put forward by Miara indicated that the evidence presented in the disqualification request are particularly poor and do not justify disqualification. This is according to the jurisprudence tests established in 2003 in the “Tibi matter”. According to her, there is no critical mass of evidence that Israel denies the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
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The chairman of the MK Abu Shahada invited ambassadors and consuls to the discussion “in order to witness the attempt to silence the Palestinian minority and to present to them the political persecution that is based on Jewish supremacy.”
Abu Shahada emphasized that: “The decision to try to disqualify Balad is political and attempts to engineer a political leadership according to the needs of Gantz and Lapid, by making poor political use of a committee that has lost all professional essence. Balad represents the idea of a state for all its citizens and fights for full equality for all, so it is not clear why the democratic idea is so scary. We in Balad will continue to be the spearhead for full civil and national equality, and we will continue our legitimate political struggle for true democracy.”
After that, another hearing will be held by a panel of three judges on the petition of the Likud and former MK Amichai Shikli on the decision of the Chairman of the Elections Committee to re-declare Shikli as a “retiring MK” and thus prevent him from running within the Likud in the upcoming elections.
At the same hearing, a petition from the Meretz party will also be raised, which demands that the decision of the Election Commission be overturned and, similarly to Shiki, not to approve former MK Idit Silman to run for the Knesset as part of the Likud.
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