Israel's Election Committee said Sunday that New Right party leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked are "falsely" claiming irregularities in the count of soldiers' votes in the April 9 election, after their party failed to pass the electoral threshold.
New reports have also surfaced that the two have parted ways as a result of their election performance, and Channel 13 News reported that Shaked may instead join Likud.
Following accusations by Bennett and Shaked that thousands of votes had gone missing, the Central Election Committee said it "wishes to clarify that it doesn't take lightly the false claims being made by the New Right, according to which there were irregularities in the counting of double-envelope ballots."
Central Elections Committee Chairman Hanan Melcer, meanwhile, allowed party representatives to look through material from special polling stations.
"In an extraordinary step, above and beyond the demands of the law, [Melcer] allowed the representatives of New Right to examine the materials from the special ballot boxes," the committee said.
"Furthermore, every claim by New Right representatives, no matter the channel by which it came, was checked immediately," the committee added.
The final election results will be presented on Wednesday, committee director Orly Ades told Kan news on Sunday.
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