The chairman of the Central Election Commission, Judge Uzi Vogelman, today (Thursday) ordered the Labor Party and candidate number 7 on its list, Ibtisam Mara’a, to respond by Monday next week to the petition filed by Uzia Segal to disqualify the candidate, following controversial statements she posted on social media. Yes, the Attorney General was asked to express his position regarding the disqualification by Tuesday.
Meanwhile, No. 2 in the Labor Party, Amar Bar-Lev, referred this morning in an interview with the GLC to the storm surrounding Maraana: “Once they saw that she was an Arab and a woman, they said it was important that she be on the list.”
As mentioned, Maozia Segal, a member of the Labor Party and an IDF invalid, petitioned the Central Election Commission on Tuesday to disqualify his party’s No. 7 candidate on the Knesset Labor list, Abtissam Mara’ana Menuchin, for “her disbelieving positions in Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and its support for terrorist activities.”
Segal must attach to his petition by midnight the signatures of 12 members of the Central Election Commission who agree to the petition, otherwise it will be rejected outright. The petition is accompanied by examples of posts and tweets published by Mara’ana in recent years, which allegedly indicate that it “opposed the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, incited racism and even incited violence and supported terrorist organizations and terrorist operatives against the State of Israel.”
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The Labor Party issued a statement petitioning to disqualify Ibtisam’s candidacy, saying: “Ibtisam Maraana has chosen to run for a Zionist party and was elected by many members and party members. She believes in living together and fighting all her life against violence. As some statements are harshly worded for all of us, “The far-fetched views of Ibtisam’s present are the sad experiences of those who are no longer party members accustomed to internal battles and petty politics are not part of the party today. The Labor Party is renewed, refusing to get stuck in the past but building a new and better future.”