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The state camp demanded on Tuesday that the coalition commit not to legislate parts of the legal revolution at the upcoming Knesset conference, Walla has learned. During the day of talks under the auspices of the president's residence, the working group of the state camp raised the demand for a commitment to stop legal legislation to the center of the talks, former cabinet secretary Oved Yehezkel, and it is not yet clear what the coalition's response to the demand will be.
At the same time, Yesh Atid's working group demanded that the Judicial Selection Committee first discuss the main issue of disagreement between the coalition and the opposition in dialogue.
Parallel meetings were held today between the staff of the President's House and the working teams of the coalition and the opposition. On Thursday, talks are expected to resume. Last week, the teams of the coalition, Yesh Atid and the state camp concluded the first round of discussions, in which they presented their positions on all controversial issues in the legal reform.
Benny Gantz, his party demanded a commitment to stop the legislation (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The talks are taking place against the backdrop of heavy pressure from some of the leaders of the protests against the legal revolution on Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid and National Camp Chairman Benny Gantz to withdraw from the talks, which are also being maintained by opposition faction leaders such as Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman and Labor Party Chairman Merav Michaeli. Lieberman yesterday called on Lapid and Gantz to "immediately stop the negotiations. All Netanyahu wants is to buy quiet until the budget is approved."
On Thursday, activists protesting the legal revolution organized a demonstration outside Lapid's home, demanding an end to "cooperating with the fraudulent talks." Supporters of the revolution in the coalition also express skepticism and impatience, accusing the opposition of refusal to impede dialogue.
The talks at the president's residence, which began after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a freeze on the revolution at the end of March, have been going on for about six weeks and have yet to reach any groundbreaking agreement. In the first three weeks, only the technical details and the framework of the negotiations were discussed, and since Passover, in the last three weeks, the teams have held discussions on all the issues included in President Herzog's outline presented at the end of March: first and foremost the Committee for the Selection of Judges, and then also Basic Law, legislation, the status of Basic Laws, the grounds for reasonableness; appointment of consultants; and anchoring the right to equality and other civil rights.
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During the talks, the coalition and opposition teams presented their positions and even reached a number of small agreements in principle, but very large gaps remained on the core issues of the Judicial Selection Committee, the disqualification of laws by the court, and the appointment of attorney generals. Last Thursday, the first round of discussions ended, and today the President's House team is expected to sit with the two teams separately to discuss further dialogue going forward. At the end of the separate meetings, representatives of the Yesh Atid coalition and the state camp are expected to have lunch together.
The main bone of contention was and remains the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee, where the opposition opposes any proposal that would give the coalition and the political echelon control over the appointment of judges. At the end of the talks on Thursday, Yesh Atid announced that they demanded that the issue of the composition of the committee be raised as a first issue as a kind of serious understanding for the continuation of the dialogue process. And in the state camp from the outset, they demanded that the Judicial Selection Committee be the first item on the agenda. Against the backdrop of the demand by anti-revolution protest leaders to blow up the talks, both Lapid and Gantz have in recent days been reluctant to continue the talks indefinitely: "He didn't let them just take time to save their government," Lapid said, while Gantz said that "if there is no progress there will be a reassessment."
The coalition is represented in the discussions by Ministers Ron Dermer, Yoav Kish, Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs, jurists Aviad Bakshi and Talia Einhorn, and MKs Kati Shitrit and Hanoch Milwicki. Yesh Atid's team includes MKs Orna Barbivai and Karin Elharrar; Former Prime Minister's Office Director General Naama Schultz and Adv. Oded Gazit, and former Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, MK Hili Tropper and Orit Farkas Hacohen and Attorney Ronen Aviani on the staff of the State Camp. The dialogue at the President's Residence is coordinated by former Cabinet Secretary Oved Yehezkel, accompanied by members of the Tachlit Institute for Israeli Thought.
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