A-G comes out against PM protection law, calls it ‘absurd’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit says a bill that would prevent the prosecution of a sitting prime minister is “absurd” and that he “totally opposes it.”

The government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed the law, referred to as the “French law,” for a similar piece of legislation in the European nation. It quickly drew criticism not only from opposition parties, but from within the coalition as well.

Speaking at a legal conference at Tel Aviv University, Mandelblit says such a law would just “mean that you have to wait” until the prime minister’s tenure ends before prosecuting.

“If you know that a prime minister is a corrupt, is this what we want? Because that’s what it would mean,” he says.

“It’s not right, not fitting and not appropriate for our country,” Mandelblit says.