With only a few days left before the Israeli national elections take place on Jan. 25, Interior Minister Itzhak Gruenbaum today asked the State Council to amend the present election regulations to permit persons who have not yet received their identification cards to vote in the forthcoming elections on Tuesday.
A Revisionist representative asked for a cut of four dollars in the elections budget as a symbolic vote of non-confidence in the Ministry of the Interior for its failure to distribute all identity cards. There are approximately 80,000 persons who we not yet received their cards. Despite the existing obstacles, the State Council decided to hold the elections on Tuesday as scheduled.
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