Labour MK files petition to block party that seeks freedom for Rabin assassin
Larissa Trimbobler-Amir, wife of Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, at the Electoral Committee to present her party, ‘Justice Trial’, for the next Israeli elections, Jerusalem, 14 January 2020
Raoul Wootliff reports in the Times of Israel:
Labor MK Itzik Shmuli filed a petition Tuesday with the Central Elections Committee calling on it to ban a political party founded by the family of Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at a peace rally 24 years ago. The party, Mishpat Tzedek (Fair Trial), is headed by Amir’s wife, Larissa Trimbobler-Amir, and is calling for a retrial for the convicted killer and “all other innocent people unjustly incarcerated.”
According to Shmuli, “Democracy does not have to open the door for those who fired three bullets in the back [of the prime minister] and now come to confirm the kill.”
The Central Elections Committee, which is staffed by lawmakers and headed by Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel, will hold deliberations on Tuesday and Wednesday on calls to disqualify candidates and parties from the March election.
Every party allowed to run receives taxpayer-funded radio and television advertising time, a situation Shmuli says is unacceptable for those linked to Amir.
Shmuli said Yigal Amir was behind the new party, which seeks “to get him released from prison and disseminate his poisonous hate.”