Anger in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Response to the Edelstein Announcement of the Knesset Plenum on the Committee to Discuss Netanyahu's Immunity • His Decision Decides that the Prime Minister's Affairs Will Decide Politically and Not Matterly • Blue and White: "Immunity Discussions Will Be Fair and End Before the Election"
Mixed responses in the political system tonight (Sunday) for Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein's decision to hold a Knesset plenary hearing on a committee to discuss Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for immunity next Tuesday.
Netanyahu announces: "I will ask for immunity" // Photo: Ami Shamir
"It is sad to see Edelstein falling into the trap of the left," noted Netanyahu's associates. "The Speaker of the Knesset allows himself to turn the Knesset into a political circus at an election, by giving his hand to the leftist ploys who are trying to use the Knesset only to neutralize Netanyahu. No matter how much the media and the left embrace the Speaker of the Knesset, he will never be able to escape responsibility.
"His decision states de facto that the prime minister's affairs will be decided politically and not as matter-of-fact and judicial as the law requires. It is clear to everyone that the left's madness to discuss Netanyahu's request stems from two main reasons: One - it will be used in their 'Just Not Bibi' election campaign; The second is that they are building a court petition that states that Netanyahu cannot impose the government's assembly after the indictment is actually filed, as it is known to all that the court did not remove this option from the table. There is no doubt that everything is in the hands of Yuli Edelstein. He can still prevent the terrible injustice that will be inflicted on the prime minister, the right and the entire country, not too late to rectify. "
In blue and white, in response to Edelstein's decision, they said: "Netanyahu exerts all possible pressure to try to prevent the hearing on the immunity request, but despite the delay - the immunity hearings will begin next week, will be conducted matter-of-factly and will end before the elections."
Edelstein: "Knesset Committee Meeting Will Be Wrong" // Photo: Ami Shamir
MK Revital Sued, head of the Labor-Bridge-Meretz party's response team, attacked the Speaker of the Knesset following the date he chose to discuss.
"Edelstein is actually helping Netanyahu melt away the immunity debate," Swede argues. "Determining the next plenary debate deliberately binds the entire system to a pressured timetable. Unfortunately, the Speaker of the Knesset has chosen to respect the democratic majority's decision in the Knesset in a very limited way. Either way, we will clean up the process, fairly and efficiently, and bring it to an end in this Knesset, within a proper timeframe before the elections. Israeli citizens are entitled to go to the polls knowing that the candidate-defendant Netanyahu will stand trial in court. "
