Likud branch petitions against PM’s reserving of spot for Jewish Home MK

21 February 2019, 3:14 pm

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A group of Likud members led by a liberal branch called the New Likudniks has filed an urgent petition to the party’s high court, demanding that it cancel a deal inked by the prime minister with the Jewish Home party which saw Netanyahu offer his party’s 28th spot in exchange for the national religious faction merging with Otzma Yehudit.

“One of the Knesset members to be included in Likud’s Knesset list will be, in effect, a Trojan horse… a candidate on behalf of another party, who is not a member of the Likud, is not committed to Likud values and is not expected to act in accordance with the Likud constitution,” they write in their petition.