The Movement for Quality Government has filed a motion to the High Court in an attempt to bar convicted terrorist Tagrid Saadi from running for public office. The movement is demanding that the Elections Committee of Sakhnin and the Interior Ministry's Elections Supervisory Commission explain why they are allowing Saadi to run for the Sakhnin city council. The movement is also filing an urgent request asking that Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit be ordered to prevent the Sakhnin municipal elections until the court case is settled. If the elections are held as scheduled, Saadi is expected to win a seat on the council. Saadi was released from prison earlier this year after serving six years for assisting a suicide bomber who murdered six people in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda marketplace in 2002. She is running for the Sakhnin city council on the same party list as the city's current mayor, Mohammed Bashir. Saadi's candidacy is illegal, the Movement for Quality Government pointed out Thursday. A clause in the elections law prevents those sentenced to more than three months in prison from running for public office in the seven years after their release. A former convict can run for office within the seven years only with permission from the Central Elections Committee, which Saadi does not have. Officials from the Elections Committee of Sakhnin and the Elections Supervisory Commission said Saadi had failed to inform authorities of her criminal background when applying to be included on the list of municipal candidates. Officials from both committees have rejected requests to annul Saadi's candidacy, but say they will investigate the matter if she is elected.