Likud cited for excessive campaign spending

The right-wing and neo-liberal Likud-Beytenu party spent NIS 71 million ($20 million) on their election campaign last year, driving their budget deficit to NIS 21 million ($5.9 million), which could threaten its continued operations, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira said in a report on the 2013 elections released Wednesday. The report also revealed that the extreme…