A week after the results of the primaries, there are many allegations of fraud among the candidates who failed to secure a realistic place on the Likud list for the Knesset:
one of the people who claims fraud in the polls is the Likud auditor, attorney Shai Galili, whom Netanyahu did not want to be elected, and who lost to Deputy Mayor of Netanya Eli Dellal, who is placed instead The 29th in the Coastal Plain District.
Galili, alleges fraud in the polling stations in the district where he ran, and after a correction of the counting, the gap between him and Dellal was reduced to 90 votes.
Following this, Galili sent a letter today (Wednesday) to the chairman of the Likud's election committee demanding that Dellal's election be disqualified on the grounds that he made illegal use of senior employees of the Netanya Municipality during the primaries.
Candidates struggle to get on the list.
Voters in the Likud primaries, photo: Gideon Markovich
Galili claims in his letter: "I received additional evidence of the candidate Eli Dellal's prohibited use of senior municipal employees for the party's primary elections. Use prohibited by the primary legislation of the State of Israel. These are the following employees: Mr. Shalom Botbol (a senior official in the municipality of Netanya) who entered the area The sterile polling and drew voters, while supervising them to insert the ballot he placed in their hands - and also admitted voters from the back entrance.
"According to the evidence; Mr. Ronan Martin (an official in the Netanya Municipality) who attended Mr. Eli Dellal's conferences and even stood and handed out ballots at Mr. Eli Dellal's stand; Mr. Yaki Yaish who allegedly serves as a municipal inspector; Rachel Ezra who allegedly works as a municipality employee; Mr. Yigal Salhov who allegedly works as a municipal employee - who used a microphone near the entrance to the polling station, as well as other municipal employees.
"The very use of manpower in the form of municipal employees for the purpose of the preliminary elections (and even more so intense and brutal) necessarily gives a substantial and unfair advantage to the candidate in question over all the other candidates while sterilizing the principle of equality between candidates in the elections," Galili adds and justifies his claims.
In conclusion, as mentioned, Galili seeks to invalidate Dellal's election.
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