Likud slams High Court’s ‘unfortunate’ rejection of bid to delay indictment announcement

28 February 2019, 4:41 pm

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Likud criticizes the High Court’s rejection of a petition demanding a delay of the expected announcement of bribery and breach of trust charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pending a hearing.

“It is unfortunate that the High Court didn’t prevent the left from blatantly intervening in the elections,” Likud says in a statement.

“The High Court itself previously ruled, in a case related to [Likud MK] Tzachi Hanegbi, that the attorney general should refrain from making announcements during elections and criticized the former attorney general who did so,” it adds. “It is a shame that the High Court didn’t listen to the High Court.”