On video: Yitzhak Wasserlauf in an interview with his Telo Vicky Adamker on the day of the Knesset inauguration (Niv Aharonson, Roni Knafo)
Number 2 in Otzma Yehudit, MK Yitzhak Wasserlauf, in recent days submitted a bill to the Knesset Secretariat according to which the government will have a majority in the committee for selecting judges. According to the proposal, the details of which have reached Walla, the government will be the one to choose the two lawyers on the committee and not the bar association, in a way that will give it A majority of one vote over the rest of its members. Wasserlauf, who is to be appointed Minister of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience in the next government, will not be able to promote the proposal after his appointment but will try to promote it from within the government.
"Moral distortion", MK Wasserlauf (photo: Reuven Castro)
The Committee for the Selection of Judges consists of nine members, who are the President of the Supreme Court, two other judges of the Supreme Court, the Minister of Justice and another minister appointed by the government, two members of the Knesset elected by the Knesset, usually a coalition representative and an opposition representative, and two representatives of the Bar Association elected by the National Council of the bureau.
According to MK Wasserlauf's bill, the two lawyers will be selected by the government.
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"The people are the sovereign", Wasserlauf next to Ben Gabir and other senior officials of Otzma Yehudit (photo: Shlomi Heller)
The reason, according to the explanation for the bill, is that "it is a moral distortion that gives a certain guild (which is highly doubtful whether it represents the entire Israeli public in a representative way) clearly unreasonable power in connection with the appointment of judicial officers who have enormous power in the Israeli public. The bill assumes that reality This is contrary to the public interest in proper representation in the judiciary. However, the ability of lawyers, who appear before judges in lower courts, or who know their colleagues in the profession, to give an opinion on the suitability of a lawyer to serve as a judge, or on the suitability of judge to move to a higher court."
In a conversation with Walla, MK Wasserlauf added that his goal was "to give adequate representation in the committee for selecting judges and to prevent a situation where the power is given to lawyers who may appoint judges who do not reflect the opinion of the majority of the public.
The people are the sovereign and the representatives in the Knesset are supposed to represent them also in the selection process of the judges."
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