The Supreme Court held a hearing today (Thursday), with an expanded panel of 9 judges headed by Supreme Court President Justice Esther Hayut, on the appeal filed by the Balad party against the Central Elections Committee's decision to disqualify its candidacy in the 25th Knesset elections. The decision will be made by Sunday and is quite expected. At the beginning of the hearing, Justice Elron addressed the Balad MKs: "Will you submit a bill that will advance the state of all its citizens?" Later, Justice Solberg said to Attorney Jabarin, who represents Balad: "Don't you speak one language to the voters and another language in the platform? Isn't it time to amend the platform?" Justice Anat Baron said in the hearing: "This is a shallow petition. The demands for disqualification are about a critical mass, and you have presented here some two sparse pieces of evidence." The Arab party was encouraged by the statement of the Legal Advisor to the Government, Gali Baharav Mayara, who noted that the evidence presented in the request to disqualify Balad does not meet the strict and stringent standards previously established in Supreme Court rulings. The representative of the legal advisor said: "There is weight to the fact that Balad ran independently, but the evidence still does not meet the tests that the Supreme Court has set." There is also weight in the fact that since 2018, Balad has not tried to promote the 'State of All Its Citizens' law again and put the things from the power into practice. If Balad had tried to put the bill on hold again, we might have changed our minds." Judge Elron referred to the comments heard in the Elections Committee about supporting terrorists, but Hayut and Fogelman mentioned that the disqualification request does not at all concern the section on supporting terrorist organizations. President Hayut rebuked the representative of the 'We Are Together' party that submitted the disqualification request: "You did not establish the evidentiary infrastructure, and this morning you asked to submit additional evidence - when you request to disqualify a list from running in the Knesset, and you have evidence, you submit all of it." President Hayut told the petitioners: "You probably estimated that more parties would submit reasoned disqualification requests, and in the end you came with two pieces of evidence." The petitioner, Attorney Moshe Hoja, admitted: "We did come with a relatively "Della, we expected additional petitions to be filed.".
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