Gideon Sa'ar demands two weeks to postpone the series on Netanyahu: "Disrupting Democratic Process"

MK Sa'ar, who is contesting in the primaries for Likud with Netanyahu for another 11 days, appealed to the chairman of the Second Authority to postpone the broadcast of Amit Segal's "Days of Benjamin" broadcast in two weeks. "Dedicating expensive broadcast hours to articles that all deal with just one candidate just days before an election is an exceptional event"

Gideon Sa'ar demands two weeks to postpone the series on Netanyahu: "Disrupting Democratic Process"

MK Gideon Sa'ar (Likud) this morning through his lawyer Advocate Avi Asiao, Chairman of the Second Authority Julia Shmalov-Berkowitz, urgently request to postpone the series "Days of Benjamin" by journalist Amit Segal, scheduled to be broadcast this evening at the news company In his appeal, Sa'ar, who is contesting the Likud's primaries on December 26, emphasized that broadcasting a four-episode series on the prime minister at the present time is "unreasonable" and severely violates the principle of equality in elections, due to the much exposure Netanyahu will receive as a result of the series screening.

"Spending precious broadcast hours while watching a record for articles that all deal with only one candidate, and every few days before a fateful election campaign is an unusual, strange and even unacceptable event," it said. "Even if the editors and creators of the series can be presumed to follow proper journalistic standards, and that a series of articles on a prime minister can be legitimate at any other time, giving so much screen time to one of the candidates is of great value and has the potential to disrupt a democratic process." .

Sa'ar contacted the news director-general Avi Weiss and answered in the negative. In the letter, Sa'ar's attorney from the chairman of the Second Authority urgently urged the two-week rejection of the series and stressed that the news company would not do any harm to this, compared to the great damage done to MK Sa'ar in dealing. Expected against Netanyahu.

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Demands to be rejected. Gideon Sa'ar (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Gideon Sa'ar, Moti Yogev and Bezalel Smutrich at the Block Session, Knesset, November 18, 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)