Justice Minister Gideon Saar announced this morning (Thursday) that he intends to advance next week, in the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs, the law limiting the prime minister's term to eight years.
The Minister of Justice tweeted: "On Sunday, I will bring to the approval of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation the bill to limit the term of office of the Prime Minister to eight years.
On Sunday, I will bring to the approval of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation the bill to limit the term of office of the Prime Minister to eight years.
Another chapter from a new platform of hope and from the coalition agreements we are keeping.
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- Gideon Sa'ar |
Gideon Sear (@gidonsaar) November 11, 2021
In a photo attached by Saar to a tweet he posted, it is written that "the late Menachem Begin taught us that 'prolonged rule is a danger to the nation's freedom and morality of construction ... it breeds corruption.'
The current legal situation The Prime Minister as well as the heads of local authorities can remain in office indefinitely.
This method makes it possible to accumulate too much power that corrupts the government.
The first law of a new hope will be to limit the term of office of a prime minister to only eight years. "
"Once that is done, another law will be enacted that will limit the tenure of local authority heads to two terms.
Local authority heads can only be elected to a third term by a special majority of more than 50% of the electorate. Restricting tenure will significantly reduce the likelihood of government corruption."
"Unlike the current situation in which the prime minister invests a lot of resources to be re-elected and maintain his rule, limiting his tenure will allow him to freely engage in the implementation of the values and reforms for which he was elected."
