Attorney General: No Basis Found for Claim of Influence on Election Results

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Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said she is not aware of any evidentiary basis that could affect the outcome of the elections or justify their annulment. According to her, the preliminary evidence presented to her concerns only isolated and limited incidents. In remarks delivered at a Justice Ministry seminar in Eilat, she clarified that new information, if presented, will be reviewed and handled in accordance with the law.

Baharav-Miara stressed that the investigation is ongoing and that significant investigative steps have already been approved, and that a joint team of the Shin Bet and the police has been established. "When there is an evidentiary basis, whoever needs to be investigated will be investigated. This is not a matter of right or left, Jew or Arab," she said. The decision on whether to investigate a person, she said, is professional, substantive and equal.

The remarks were made against the backdrop of a sharp confrontation with the head of the Shin Bet over the investigation of the suspected foreign interference in the elections. In her remarks at a Prosecution seminar, she described the steps of the regime coup as a fatal blow to the rule of law, and called the Investigations Unit law a poison pill inserted into the law enforcement system.