The reform of the judicial system (the committee for the appointment of judges) was approved in the first reading (Knesset Channel)
The Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar said this morning (Tuesday) that the government is ready to enter into negotiations with the opposition on the legal revolution, after tonight its first articles were approved in the first reading.
"I see this great rift that is growing day by day in the State of Israel, it is something that particularly worries us," he said in an interview with the program "Seven to Nine" with Anat Davidov and Gideon Oko on 103.
"We want to make a reform that is good for Israel, but we see that they are constantly inciting against the reform and saying that it will destroy Israeli democracy and turn the State of Israel into a dictatorship, and these are really rude lies that disconnect from reality itself and the reform itself."
According to him, "in the reform itself, of course, the Supreme Court still has the power to invalidate laws without having a superseding clause, provided that it does so in an expanded composition of the Supreme Court."
He later addressed the accusations that the coalition is not ready to enter into negotiations: "We said immediately after the president published the outline that we were interested in entering into negotiations and examining the possibility of changes. As soon as we announced that we wanted to enter into negotiations, Yair Lapid rushed and told the protesters, 'We defeated them, they surrendered, they were afraid of the demonstrations, And here you will see that what we wanted to do is happening'. For me, this is really a non-leadership, irresponsible statement, which showed us that there is no interest in real dialogue here, but rather a desire mainly to fold us and stop the reform."
"If you're fixing legislation, fix it between the first reading and the second."
Zohar (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Zohar explained: "We have finished the first reading. Anyone who thinks that such a legislative process happens in two days is wrong, it is a process that takes many months. We are at exactly the right time to start making the talks, the negotiations and also the amendments, because if we are already amending legislation, amendments are made between the first reading For a second, this is exactly the time from a parliamentary point of view. What is clear is that we want to enter into negotiations and it is clear that we are of course ready for certain changes."
When asked about which laws in his opinion should be debated, he claimed that "we need to discuss how many judges are needed to determine that the law is invalid so that it does not have a superseding clause, this is a discussion that needs to be entered into."
He added that "the composition of the committee for appointing judges does need to be discussed."
According to him, "Whoever thinks that if a judge is appointed by a certain camp he becomes committed only to that camp, then he probably does not know how the judicial system works. Once you are appointed to be a judge, the story is over, you don't need anyone anymore,
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