Tonight (Tuesday), the Knesset plenum approved two of the reform laws in the judicial system in the first reading. The first bill concerned the composition of the committee for the selection of judges, and the second the abolition of judicial review of fundamental laws. 63 Knesset members voted in favor of both proposals, and 47 opposed.
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MK Matan Kahana He spoke this morning with Anat Davidov and Gideon Oko on 103FM and commented: “This is a very bad day for democracy. I think the coalition here is acting in a predatory manner. If there was someone who said they were willing to negotiate in good faith to reach some agreed reform, then they proved yesterday That it doesn’t interest them and they rush forward to predatory legislation, to run over half of the people, and it’s a shame.”
“I am completely opposed to this reform, I strongly support the need for reform and I support the demand, which is not only of the coalition today, in my opinion, it crosses the coalition and the opposition. I said that I support Rothman’s demand to carry out reform, I am very happy that we have reached a situation where there is finally an understanding that reform is needed at home The sentence. I voted against this reform as it is being brought now. As someone who is sick is also given cocktails and too many drugs and each drug is taken to the limit. After all, each of these drugs alone could have cured the patient and certainly not in these doses and strengths. That’s why I say again – You can talk about any of the issues in these reforms, but not like this,” he added.
Later, he referred to the attempts to negotiate and said that “the state camp, under the leadership of Benny Gantz, say a very simple thing – when non-legislators speak, that’s all. We say, ‘Let’s petition the president of the country.’ Our request, without conditions, without 60 days, without 20 days. We are only saying ‘when you speak, do not legislate.’ , ‘We understood you dear opposition, you are not really coming in good faith and we are going to legislate.’
“I think the two-month requirement does not encourage negotiations, I think the president’s request. I said this yesterday – I think a sixty-day requirement does not encourage negotiations, I think that sticking to the president’s outline that says ‘when talking is not legislative’ is something that really could be possible To start with him is in the hands of the coalition. I am not referring to Yair Lapid now, I now want to talk about Rothman and Levin, because yesterday I saw when I left the plenum, I managed to see some interview that said that this morning the committee is meeting, continuing to work and everything as usual. What we see is also Yariv Levin and Rotman are just rushing forward, if they have no desire for a real conversation. Ok, you won, you passed the first reading yesterday, stop for a moment, say you are stopping, we want to talk,” he added.
Later, he criticized Lapid and said that “Lapid does want to talk. I think the threshold conditions he sets do not encourage this dialogue, but once again sticking here to the conditions that the opposition has supposedly put forward is not serious when we see the rapacity with which the coalition operates.”
At the end, he referred to the incident near MK Tali Gottlieb’s house: “An ugly incident that should not have happened, I stand by it and we strongly condemned it. On the other hand, to hear the cries of dismay at the behavior from people who did not even once condemn protests near the homes of sound families, terrible chants, did not condemn even once when they physically attacked Minister Silman at a gas station. When instead of condemning another Sarah went and made a parody of this attack at the same gas station. So hear moral sermons from them.”
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Noya Hasson, 103FM