Arab Israeli Politician Consults After Court Signals Disqualification
Translated & summarized from Panet by baba
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- Sami Abu Shehadeh is consulting advisors on his Knesset candidacy.
- The Supreme Court President indicated a majority favors his disqualification.
- The Central Elections Committee had previously disqualified him.
- The court's decision came during deliberations on another candidate's disqualification.
Sami Abu Shehadeh, the head of the National Democratic Alliance party, is engaged in intensive consultations with his lawyers and party officials. This follows a statement by the President of the Supreme Court indicating a majority favors disqualifying Abu Shehadeh's candidacy for the 26th Knesset. The Central Elections Committee, headed by Judge Noam Sohlberg, had previously decided to disqualify him.
Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit paused deliberations on the disqualification of Ofer Cassif, a Member of Knesset for the Democratic Front, to address Abu Shehadeh's case. Amit advised Abu Shehadeh to consider withdrawing his candidacy, setting a deadline for his decision by the end of deliberations on the same day. Amit explicitly stated, "There is a majority to disqualify Sami Abu Shehadeh's candidacy."
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