Supreme Court Reverses Election Committee Decisions on Arab Lists and Cassif
Translated & summarized from Panet by baba
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- Supreme Court overturned disqualification of United Arab List and Joint List.
- MK Ofer Cassif's disqualification was also reversed by the court.
- The Election Committee had previously disqualified the lists and Cassif.
- Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy after consultations.
- The court's decision came after a lengthy deliberation by nine judges.
Israel's Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the Election Committee's decision to disqualify the United Arab List, led by Dr. Mansour Abbas, and the Joint List, headed by Professor Yousef Jabareen. In a separate ruling, the court, by majority, reversed the disqualification of Member of Knesset Ofer Cassif, who ran on the Joint List. Two judges had favored upholding his disqualification.
The Supreme Court's decision came after an extensive, ten-hour deliberation by an expanded panel of nine judges, presided over by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit. The court issued its ruling ahead of the legal deadline for decisions on candidate and list disqualifications, which was set for Sunday.
Meanwhile, former MK Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the National Democratic Assembly, officially withdrew his candidacy. He submitted a formal letter to the Election Committee announcing his decision, which followed intensive consultations with his party's political bureau and legal counsel. President Amit had previously informed Abu Shehadeh during deliberations that a majority of the judges favored upholding his disqualification and advised him to withdraw, granting him until the end of the deliberations to decide.
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