Labor troubles: Gil Beilin, 10th on the job list, today (Sunday) turned to party member Abtissam Maraana and called on her to resign and resign from the job list in the upcoming elections, where she is placed in seventh place. This, it will be recalled, after last week the Central Election Commission rejected her candidacy due to controversial past remarks on her part.
Beilin even distributed the letter to other candidates on the job list, so that they too would demand that Abtissam retire. “Dear Abtissam, I keep getting phone calls and messages from friends, Labor members, Labor voters and many people who this time intended to return home and vote ‘Labor,’ informing me, sadly, that they are leaving the party and will not vote because of what you said,” Beilin wrote in his letter.
Beilin’s letter to Maraana (Photo: screenshot)He added: “Our main occupation, the Knesset candidates, focuses on the effort to stop the drift of those who are not willing to vote for Labor, to explain you, to say you apologized, and all this instead of presenting the party’s plans and vision.”
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“If the Labor Party happens to you, you will have to make a decision that only you can make: resign from the list to the Knesset so as not to harm the party’s chances in the upcoming elections,” he read.
“It’s hard for me to write these things and I know there’s something wrong with what I offer you,” Beilin admitted. “But it was very difficult for me to be exposed to the things that were quoted on your behalf, and I can understand the many who informed me of abandonment. Now is your moment.”
Gil Beilin (Photo: Lee Beilin)As mentioned, the plenum of the Central Election Commission, headed by Judge Uzi Vogelman, last week rejected the candidacy of number 7 on the Labor list Abtissam Maraana by a majority of 16 supporters against 15 opponents and 2 abstentions. The reasons for its rejection are “support for the armed struggle of a terrorist organization” and “denial of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” The decision to disqualify her will go to the Supreme Court, which has previously made decisions of the committee.