(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, FEBRUARY 02 - The reform of the judicial system that Benyamin Netanyahu's government wants to introduce "will cause significant damage to the democratic rule of law".
State Advocate General Gali Baharav-Miara denounces it in an official 112-page opinion sent to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, according to which the reform proposal, presented by the minister himself, "will lead to serious damage to the system of checks and balances" between the powers .
The major concerns - added Baharav-Miara cited by the media - concern "the separation of powers, judicial independence and the protection of individual rights".
The revision of the system as it has been formulated - continued the State Attorney - will lead the government to enjoy "an extensive and practically unlimited authority".
Not only will the bad proposal - against which there have been protests in many cities of Israel for weeks - damage the country's status as a "Jewish and democratic state".
For Baharav-Miara, if democracy is founded "on the principle of majority rule" it is equally true that this must be associated with the fact that "government authorities cannot have unlimited powers: a sure recipe for harming human rights".
(HANDLE).