"His election will cause damage": Netanyahu appealed the decision to allow a candidate convicted of burglary to run in the primaries | Israel today

At the direction of Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, after the court's ruling that David Laniado could compete in the Likud primaries, Likud legal counsel, Avi Halevi, filed a petition with the District Court in Tel Aviv this morning (Tuesday) to disqualify David Laniado as a candidate in the Likud primaries Among other things, the petition relies on the decision of the judge who heads the Likud's election committee, who ruled that Nyadhu cannot run in the Likud.

Netanyahu: "I agree with the judge that Laniado should be disqualified and call on the Likud officials to vote for other candidates who are worthy, and whose election will not cause the Likud unnecessary damage."

As mentioned, the judges wrote in their decision that "we have come to the conclusion that we cannot but intervene in the election committee's decision and we determine that there are legal reasons to disqualify a candidate because of convictions for which the statute of limitations has passed. However, the court calls on the appellant to examine and consider the consequences of his candidacy, in light of his statement to us that If he is convinced that his candidacy harms the good of the movement, he will do the right thing on his own initiative."

To recall, as we published, the election committee of the Likud party disqualified the candidacy of his uncle Laniado, one of the prominent candidates in the Likud primaries and a member of the party who was previously convicted of breaking into houses, and is considered an associate of Knesset member David Bitan.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a letter to Benny Gantz on the appointment of the Chief of Staff Credit: Likud spokespeople

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