Back to the Minister of Justice:
Spokesman Avichai Mandelblit today (Thursday) referred for the first time to a law according to which a criminal defendant will not be able to receive the mandate to form a government, and claimed that this is not a personal law against opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu.
"In recent days, the Minister of Justice has submitted a proposal to amend the Basic Law, according to which anyone against whom a serious indictment is pending will not be able to form a government," Mandelblit said at a conference in memory of Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar.
"According to the bill, the amendment is not personal but general, and looks to the future. This, while imposing appropriate restrictions and control and audit mechanisms, taking into account other important regime principles that apply in a democracy.
"I believe that the proposed amendment to the Basic Law does not create anything out of the ordinary, in the sense that it follows in the footsteps of legislation and Supreme Court rulings in general, and the ruling of President Shamgar in particular, which deals with eligibility for public office. , Is that we must do everything in our power to defend the exercise of governmental power fairly, to strengthen the principle of public loyalty.
"The proposed law seeks to lilac in this way and adjust the legal situation applicable to the eligibility of other elected officials, also in relation to the eligibility to serve as prime minister. It must ensure that statehood overrides any personal interest."
