The district court today (Sunday) accepted the petition filed by MK Merav Michaeli against the decision of the Labor Party conference to cancel the primaries for the party leadership ahead of the upcoming elections. Michaeli later announced that she would run for the position of party chairman: “For democracy, yes for the primaries and the functionaries. I announce my candidacy for the position of chairman of the Labor Party. Because it is time to return the truth to politics.”
This is a blow for the party’s chairman, Amir Peretz, who recently announced that he will not head the party in the election, but reported that he is trying to recruit an outside candidate for the party’s presidency in exchange for supporting Peretz’s candidacy for the presidency. “.
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“We won. The district court accepted our petition, overturned the party leader’s attempt to cancel the primaries, and defended the right of members and party members to choose who represented them. Now it is mandatory to hold primaries for the party immediately,” MK Michaeli said.
“A little over a month ago, Amir Peretz and Itzik Shmuli tried to snatch and turn the Labor Party into a dictatorship without primaries. They failed. Democracy won, truth won, justice won, we won,” she added.
“It was not a simple battle. In the face of a well-oiled, manpower-intensive apparatus and complete control over the resources of the Labor Party, we achieved the justice that was so eager to achieve. This struggle is a struggle of members and members of the Labor Party. “To be a democracy and for our politics to be clean and credible,” Michaeli continued.
Come on primaries – bring back and bring back the truth to politics!
– Merav Michaeli Merav Michaeli (@MeravMichaeli) January 3, 2021
MK Meirav Michaeli was represented by attorneys Yossi Ashkenazi and Or Diskin, from the firm of Herzog Fox Ne’eman.