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Chikli, Likud write ‘injustice towards former MK Chikli cries out to heaven’
Disqualified candidate Amichai Chikli, from Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, filed an appeal with Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday to reinstate his candidacy for upcoming parliamentary elections.
Israel’s Central Election Commission (CEC) last week banned Chikli from running on the Likud list, accepting a petition claiming Chikli resigned at the appropriate time.
Chikli was expelled from the right-wing Yamina party, in the past led by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, shortly after Idit Silman left the coalition. Under Israeli law, lawmakers declared that defectors cannot run in any existing parliamentary faction (Knesset) in the upcoming elections, scheduled for Nov. 1, unless they resign from the Knesset “immediately. “
Notably, the law does not specify an express time frame, and Chikli declared himself a deserter on April 25 and resigned on July 12. The Likud then asked Chikli to be a member of his party’s list before the CEC disqualified him following a request from the left. Gaby Lasky, MERETZ Party MP.
Chikli and Likud wrote in their petition that “the injustice committed against former MK Chikli cries out to heaven. “
Netanyahu had said in the past that if he returned to prime minister status, he would make Chikli a minister. They wrote on appeal that “the basic constitutional right to vote and be elected” was violated.
“It is to settle for a scenario in which a Knesset member and a party act in accordance with the advice of a legal court sitting on a panel of 3 judges and then stand in front of a damaged watering hole,” Chikli and Likud said. . wrote on Monday’s call.
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