The overcoming clause and the change of the committee for the selection of judges: Levin's reform of the judicial system (Walla system!)
The chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, suggested this morning (Thursday) to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a joint team, in order to bring about a legal reform with a broad consensus, instead of the one presented last night by Justice Minister Yariv Levin. "We are in an emergency - Netanyahu has to decide if he wants to break the rules The game or to preserve the State of Israel," Gantz said at the start of Reichman University's "annual Democracy Day" events. "We will fight the proposal that aims to turn Israel into a hollow democracy and abolish the values of the Declaration of Independence."
Gantz claimed that an alternative reform could be passed within six months. He also added The Knesset member that "in his speech, the Minister of Justice said that this is the 'first step in the reform.'
We all understand very well what the second stage is - all the issues concerning the Prime Minister, delaying or canceling his trial through the replacement of the prosecutor or a French law. Step by step in an orderly plan. To these must be added the intention to neuter the media,
"We are in an emergency."
Gantz (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Yesterday, Minister Levin presented the reform he wants to pass in the judicial system.
The steps he wants to take: changing the representatives in the committee for selecting judges, passing the superseding clause, canceling the "probability cause" and changing the attitude towards the legal advisors.
According to Levin, the timing of the introduction of the reform is not related to the High Court's discussion on the appointment of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri as a minister.
First, Levin seeks to change the method for selecting judges, by removing the two representatives of the Bar Association from the committee and replacing them with members of the Knesset. "No Another situation where the judges choose themselves in chambers without a protocol, but equal representation of the three government authorities in the committee for selecting judges," the Minister of Justice claimed.
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"You have to decide if he wants to keep the country."
Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Levin explained that he is interested in regulating the disqualification of the laws and the superseding clause.
According to him, the superseding clause will be enacted, according to which with a majority of 61 members, the Knesset will be able to annul a law invalidated by the court.
"It will be possible to disqualify laws in the Supreme Court, with a full composition and a special majority," said Levin, explaining that in order to disqualify a law, the unanimous consent of the judges discussing it will be required.
In addition, the Minister of Justice wants to cancel the "reasonableness ground" - the same ground for which Legal Adviser to the Government Gali Beharev Miara wants to disqualify Shas chairman Aryeh Deri as minister.
"No more invalidating completely legal decisions of an elected government under the excuse of implausibility in the eyes of the judge, instead returning the ability to make decisions to the elected government," stated the minister.
Finally, Levin wants to change the policy towards the legal advisors, and to cancel the statement that their position requires the political echelon to act on it.
"No more subordination of the government to an unelected level. The legal advisors, as they are called, are 'advisors' and not 'deciders,'" said the Minister of Justice.
"When they represent the government, they should represent the government, not their private opinion."
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