Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, October 1 (Reporters Lu Yingxu and Zhang Tianlang) The Central Election Commission of Israel announced on September 29 that it would cancel the qualification of the Arab party "National Democratic League" in Israel to participate in the Israeli parliamentary elections on November 1. The party said it would appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court.
In the statement, the Israeli Central Election Commission said that the vote on the day passed the above decision with 9 votes in favor and 5 votes against. The vote was initiated by an Israeli extreme nationalist party that accused the "National Democratic Alliance" of opposing Israel's "Jewish Democratic State" attributes.
This is the scene of the Israeli parliament meeting taken on Jerusalem on June 22. Xinhua News Agency /Gini Pictures
Sammi Abu Shehhard, leader of the "National Democratic Alliance", condemned this, believing that the decision was out of political needs.
Arabs account for about one-fifth of Israel's population, mainly Palestinians who remained in Israel after the founding of the State in 1948. Including the "National Democratic Alliance", there are currently four Arab political parties active in Israeli politics. In 2015, these four Arab parties jointly ran for election, forming the third largest party in the parliament. On September 15 this year, the "National Democratic Alliance" announced its withdrawal and ran for election alone.
Israel's Central Election Committee is composed of members of parliament from multiple political parties. The committee has repeatedly tried to stop Arab parties from running for suspected "disloyalty" to Israel, but they were eventually rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court.
