Likud MK Chanoch Milwidsky, who vowed on Sunday that Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara will face justice for her persecution of Chareidim, also addressed the intervention of the High Court.

In the second part of his interview with Kol B’Rama, Milwidsky referred to the High Court’s ruling ordering the Knesset to hold a repeat vote for the election of State Comptroller Michael Rabello because some MKs took selfies of themselves in the voting booth. The ruling was issued despite the fact that there is no Israeli law banning voters from photographing themselves at the ballot box.

“It is a disgrace if we hold another election, and no one in this coalition should ever again speak about governance if that’s what they’re going to do,” he said. “Time after time we make the same mistake and show up for the theater of the absurd run by Yitzchak Amit in the High Court building instead of sending him a note saying he has absolutely no authority to interfere in the Knesset’s internal elections and that we have no intention of complying with his decision.”

“I’m saying it now: if anyone is planning another vote, I’m going to film myself voting behind the booth again, and there isn’t a person in the world who can stop me. There is no explicit law prohibiting an MK from photographing his own vote. Even the Knesset’s legal adviser suggested banning phones, and both sides—including the opposition—rejected the idea. This entire story is fabricated and absurd, and I have no intention of giving in to it.”

Milwidsky also addressed the expected October 20 election date and dismissed concerns by some Likud members that the campaign would take place in the shadow of the October 7 memorial.

“We’ve long witnessed every remaining trace of statesmanship being abandoned by the left, whether at Yom Hazikaron or Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremonies, where they come and spread their poison everywhere.

“We shouldn’t conduct ourselves based on what they do or don’t do. If we do what is right for the Jewish people and protect Toras Yisrael, it doesn’t matter what everyone else does. The meaning of ‘A people that shall dwell alone and shall not reckon itself among the nations’ unfortunately also applies to the nations that are among us.”

Senior Attorney David Peter also slammed the High Court ruling, saying, “When they (the justices) say that a substantive flaw occurred, what they really mean is that no flaw occurred, because if there had been a flaw, they would have identified what the flaw was.”

“There is no dispute that someone voting in a secret ballot is permitted to document his own vote. We’ve seen that in previous votes.”

“There is no legal basis for invalidating the vote, which is why they refer to a ‘substantive flaw.'”

“In a nutshell, this is the politicization of the Israeli legal system. You don’t need evidence, you don’t need a legal foundation—you just need the desired outcome.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)