After High Court ordered revote on next comptroller, government official threatens to disrupt future secret ballots

A senior government official reportedly suggests that the recent High Court order for the Knesset to hold a repeat vote for state comptroller will hand future oppositions a tool to sabotage future secret ballots held among lawmakers, including elections for president.

The remark comes as coalition members have urged defying the court order, which was issued due to several Likud lawmakers having publicly documented their vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal lawyer Michael Rabello, thus violating the vote secrecy.

“It’s amazing that the High Court justices don’t understand the ramifications of this ruling,” the unnamed government official is quoted as saying by the Kan public broadcaster.

“If we are in the opposition, we intend to disrupt every secret ballot, election for state comptroller or election for president. We will violate the [vote] secrecy and demand that the High Court annul the results, as decided by the High Court, and then we’ll see how they deal with it.”