Justice Minister Gideon Saar today (Tuesday) issued a memorandum to the law prohibiting a defendant in offenses of more than three years in prison from forming a government.
The Law Amending the Basic Law: The Government.
In the political system, the law is called the "Netanyahu Law," against the background of the lawsuit currently being filed against it against the Likud chairman.
According to the proposal, an MK who is pending an indictment will not be eligible to form a government if he is charged with an offense punishable by more than three years in prison. And will determine that in the circumstances of the case there is no disgrace to the offense.
Thus, an MK who has an indictment against him for an offense punishable by more than three years in prison, and has a disgrace with it - will not be able to accept the job of train the government from the president, will not be included in a proposal to trust a new government and will not be sworn in. Starting with the 25th Knesset.
Justice Minister Saar said: "It is our duty to establish better regime arrangements for the future, which fortify Israel's values as a Jewish and democratic state. We have a duty to prevent a recurrence of the situation that the State of Israel has experienced until recently."
