On video: the Ministry of Justice conference in Eilat against the background of the calls for reforms in the legal system (photo: Leam)
Outgoing Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar summarized his position today (Wednesday) and stated in a conversation with reporters, "I am ready to hold a dialogue with the next government on the surrogacy clause only as a solution that includes the Basic Law of Legislation."
He added that he believes that the override clause should be by a qualified majority of 65 members of the Knesset.
Just before the new government was sworn in and after the legislative blitz had passed, Sa'ar explained for the first time how he saw the splitting of the powers of the ombudsman in practice. Whether to prosecute its members. In the end, the solution I found to this problem is to transfer to the state attorney the authority to prosecute, if necessary, the members of the government."
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"The elections were not about a change of government, but about a change of regime."
Sa'ar (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Sa'ar added and explained, "However, in order for the state attorney to be able to prosecute the members of the government, he will be required to obtain the approval of an external body that includes a former judge, a former ombudsman and a private defense attorney, and this is how the balance will be created.
This is how I free the ombudsman to make a decision in the matters of people he works with every day," he concluded.
The outgoing Minister of Justice emphasized in his words that the plan he is proposing is completely different from the one proposed by MK Bezalel Smotrich in the last election campaign of the Religious Zionist Party, and even claimed that the plan of the Chairman of Religious Zionism "is not correct".
Smotrich proposed splitting the Ombudsman's powers into three: a state attorney who deals only with civil lawsuits; a legal advisor, whose opinion on issues related to the government's role is not binding; and a general prosecutor, who deals with criminal law.
"Crushes the positions of the ombudsman and the state attorney." Smotrich (photo: Reuven Castro)
When Sa'ar was asked where he thought Smotrich's plan was wrong, he replied: "The plan of religious Zionism is wrong because it crushes both roles - both the role of the ombudsman and the role of the state attorney." He claimed that the plan of religious Zionism for the system The sentence "comes from a place that wants to weaken the system.
This plan makes the state attorney the one who is only responsible for the representation of the state in the courts in civil proceedings, and makes the advisor one whose position is not binding.
And in addition, and transfers the lawsuit to a general prosecutor, who is appointed once every six years."
At the end of his speech, Sa'ar said, "I said even before the elections and I was the only one who said it, these elections are not about a change of government as usually happens in a democracy.
These elections are about a change of regime, and if you look at the accumulation of things, you see a change here," he claimed. "There is also public opinion in democracy, my feeling is that public opinion is not necessarily enthusiastic about the congestion and the speed of the moves being made,
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