Yesh Atid seeks to thwart the transfer of Rivlin's powers at the end of his tenure as Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin due to the politically sensitive period • MK Toporovsky: "The proposal is not personal, intended to prevent contempt of the presidential election"
President Rivlin and Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin
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Yonatan Zindel Flash 90, Oren Ben Hakon
While the Knesset began preparations for the election of the next president, in place of Reuven Rivlin, Yesh Atid is working to continue his actual tenure until a new president is elected.
In doing so, they hope not to transfer his powers to the Speaker of the Knesset and an associate of Prime Minister Netanyahu, MK Yariv Levin, in the interim period.
A bill that will be submitted to the Knesset today on behalf of MK Boaz Toporovsky from the faction, and which reached Israel Today, seeks to prevent a situation in which the Speaker of the Knesset has presidential powers - until a new president is elected.
The bill proposes that "in order to prevent the buyer, in whom the Speaker of the Knesset has the power to prevent a new president from entering office, only by not appointing a Knesset sitting for that purpose, it is proposed that as long as this is the case, the outgoing president will continue to serve until the new president enters."
Bish Atid officials want to prevent the possibility that the Speaker of the Knesset, who is an MK on behalf of the Likud party, will be responsible for decisions in the president's field.
Bottom line, their desire is for the mandate to pass to Chairman Yair Lapid, had Netanyahu failed to form a government smoothly and without "but" or "maybe."
Toporovsky claimed in a conversation with Israel Today that the bill is not being submitted for personal reasons.
"It is not personal, but comes to prevent elected officials from despising the process of electing the president, taking over his powers and abusing them against the majority opinion."
But in the same breath, Toporovsky added that "Netanyahu, whose only government is extremist and extortionate, will do anything to stay stuck in the chair and avoid prison, even if it means harming state symbols like the president and Israeli democracy."
President Rivlin's term is due to end on July 9, and by law, the next president must be elected 30 to 90 days before the current president's term ends.
Thus, in fact, the election of the next president is expected to take place by secret ballot as early as the end of May, or the beginning of July.
