The Arab Democratic Party will retain its two seats in the Knesset as a result of a ruling by the Jerusalem District Court.
The court on Tuesday rejected the government’s appeal of the election results in a Bedouin village in the Negev. The government had argued that disarray in the polling process raised doubts about the validity of the results.
But the court found that voting irregularities that might have occurred in the town of Aroer would not have changed the final outcome and did not justify annulling the returns.
Had the court annulled the returns, it would have deprived the Arab Democratic Party of enough votes to keep its second Knesset seat, which is held by Bedouin lawyer Taleb a-Sanaa. The extra seat would have gone to the ruling Labor Party.
The government may still appeal the case to the High Court of Justice.
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