MK Rotman's compromise proposal (Knesset Channel)
The Constitution Committee is meeting at this time (Wednesday) to vote on changing the composition of the Committee for the Selection of Judges before a second and third reading in the Knesset Plenum, as part of promoting the legal revolution.
According to the coalition's new proposal, the composition of the committee will be changed so that it will have 11 members, and it will be divided into two: a committee to select judges for the Supreme Court and a committee to appoint judges in lower courts.
The committee that will discuss appointments to the supreme court will consist of three ministers, three Knesset members from the coalition, two Knesset members from the opposition and three supreme judges, including the president.
In each term, in the first two appointments to the top, a simple majority of only six members will be required, so that the coalition can appoint them by itself, but from the third appointment onwards, a simple majority and the consent of the opposition representative in the third appointment and the judges in the fourth appointment will be required.
Chairman of the Constitution Committee, Simcha Rotman (Photo: Yehats)
Today the opposition submitted 5,400 reservations to the proposal in an attempt to delay the votes in the Constitution Committee and later also in the Plenum.
The Speaker of the Knesset, Sagit Afik, and the Committee's Speaker, Gur Blay, claimed that due to the many reservations - some of the votes will be made in a centralized manner if it turns out that they are similar and not essential.
The members of the opposition resented the move, saying that even though such a procedure exists in the Knesset - this is a bill that means "crushing democracy", and the process should not be shortened or the parliamentary tools at their disposal to delay the legislation.
Now, the committee has gone into recess in an attempt to reach agreements between the members of the coalition and the opposition on timetables for the discussion, although the opposition has announced that it does not agree in any way to any proposal and wishes to reason and vote on each reservation separately, a process that may take a very long time.
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