The Likud party court ruled that the wording on the primary ballot is misleading. It ordered the removal of the phrase "Prime Minister and Movement Chairman's proposal" from the second option, saying the ballot must neutrally ask whether sitting or former MKs, ministers, and deputy ministers should be allowed to run in districts.
The Likud party's internal court issued a ruling Thursday morning regarding the wording of a primary ballot question. The court found that presenting one option as "the Prime Minister and Movement Chairman's proposal" was misleading, as it implies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of that specific position. The ruling orders the ballot to state the question neutrally: whether sitting or former party officeholders (MKs, ministers, and deputy ministers) should be allowed to run in party districts. The decision does not invalidate the primary itself but requires the party secretariat to reprint the ballots with the corrected wording before voting opens. The Likud primaries are the first major internal test of party discipline since the 2022 general election, with factions divided over the candidacy rules for veteran lawmakers. An earlier intra-party legal challenge had been filed by a group of Likud members who argued the original phrasing favored one camp.
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