Interesting Letter by Rabbi Tzadka - Regarding Participation in Elections and According Proper Honor to Rabbi Shach

Interesting Letter by Rabbi Tzadka - Regarding Participation in Elections and According Proper Honor to Rabbi Shach
Letter handwritten and signed by R. Yehuda Tzadka, head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva, sent to R. Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, Chief Rabbi of Haifa. Jerusalem, Iyar 1977.
R. Tzadka opens the letter with blessings of peace and health, and requests from R. Bakshi Doron that out of deference to the honor of R. Shach, he should rather not publicly express an opinion or intervene to support the Poalei Agudat Yisrael party against the Agudat Yisrael party [the letter was written before the elections to the ninth Knesset. R. Yehuda Tzadka himself did not vote in any elections. This was reputedly due to what he had heard from his illustrious teachers R. Ezra Attiya and R. Yaakov Mutzafi. From this letter, written with astute wisdom, his approach and opinions on this matter can be discerned].
"…You surely know that I do not involve myself in the matter of elections, because for reasons known to me I do not participate in the elections. However, in any case, I have heard as if you have, G-d forbid, believed slander spoken against Agudat Yisrael that they allegedly spoke or wrote improper things about you, and therefore you tend to Poalei Agudat Yisrael. This matter is of no importance to me, but since I have discovered from truthful people that Agudat Yisrael is not at all connected to the article written against you, I want to inform you that perhaps it is wise that you do not publicly identify with any particular party, so it should not seem that you believed slander and that you wrongly suspect the upright. Especially since the opinion of R. Shach tends to Gimmel [Agudat Yisrael], publicly opposing the leading Torah authority of the generation is not advisable…".
R. Yehuda Tzadka (1910-1991), head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva and author of Kol Yehuda, was very unostentatious, and although he was considered the leading Sephardi Torah scholar of the previous generation, he greatly venerated the rabbis of his times, even those younger than himself such as R. Ben Zion Aba Shaul and R. Ovadia Yosef. In this letter, it is apparent his concern also for the honor of the "leading Torah authority of the generation" R. Shach, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva [who in the 1977 elections supported the Agudat Yisrael party. In the 1974 elections, when Poalei Agudat Yisrael joined Agudat Yisrael, R. Shach and R. Kanievsky instructed their followers not to vote at all in those elections. Therefore, in the 1977 elections, Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael ran as separate parties].
[1] leaf. 32 cm. More than 26 autograph lines. Good condition. Minor wear and tears.