Meretz chief: Elections Committee ruling on Otzma Yehudit ‘a mark of shame’

6 March 2019, 6:14 pm

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Meretz party leader Tamar Zandberg says the Central Elections Committee’s “embarrassing” decision to “ignore the attorney general and save the Kahanists” by approving the candidacy of Otzma Yehudit members is “a mark of shame for the Knesset.”

She says her party will appeal to the High Court of Justice.

Meretz party leader MK Tamar Zandberg at Meretz primaries in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2019. (Flash90)

The Reform movement also lambastes the decision saying the committee, which is made up members of the various Knesset factions, “has given backing to racism and incitement and has failed shamefully to enact the law.

The movement says it provided the committee with “an extensive basis of evidence the proves Michael Ben Ari’s longstanding incitement and racism.”