In Israel, the standoff between the Supreme Court and political power continues over controversial justice reform. The country’s highest court is due to examine a law recently adopted by Parliament this Tuesday. This is a text limiting the conditions of incapacity of a Prime Minister, that is to say the cases where he would be declared unfit to exercise his functions.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sami Boukhelifah
This law, adopted last March as part of justice reform, is tailor-made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp, for Benjamin Netanyahu. Thanks to it, only the Israeli Prime Minister can declare himself unfit to exercise his functions, in the event of a physical or mental problem.
The government can also trigger this incapacity procedure, but this requires the vote of three-quarters of ministers. Suffice to say that thanks to this text, Benyamin Netanyahu has taken shelter.
Moreover, it was from the adoption of this law last spring that the head of the Israeli government took to the arena to defend his justice reform tooth and nail. Before that, he kept himself apart. Because he had hands tied “, he admitted publicly.
Benyamin Netanyahu is charged in three criminal cases. Wanting to reform justice while being in the dock clearly constitutes a conflict of interest. And the Israeli Prime Minister feared being removed from office at the time. Thanks to this law, he secured a sort of immunity. The magistrates of the highest court in the country are meeting this Tuesday to say whether or not this text is legal.