MK Khenin to Supreme Court: Defend Democracy – Repeal Raised Electoral Threshold
On Sunday, December 28, a panel of nine Supreme Court judges convened to confer on petition against legislation passed in March 2014 which raised the Knesset’s electoral threshold to 3.25%. In December 2013, the right-wing parties reached an agreement among themselves to raise the electoral threshold for representation in the Knesset from 2% to 3.25%.…