Likud MK Files Supreme Court Petition Against Party's Primary Election Ban

First reported by Maariv · 1 day ago

What happened

Likud MK Afif Abed and Prime Minister Netanyahu are petitioning Israel's Supreme Court against a Likud party ruling barring current and former officials from contesting certain primary election districts.

• 01Likud's internal court barred current and former officials from running in some primary districts.
• 02MK Afif Abed filed a Supreme Court petition against this decision.
• 03Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to file a similar petition later the same day.
• 04The ban affects Knesset members, ministers, and deputy ministers.
• 05The dispute concerns the rules for Likud's primary elections.

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