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Ben Gvir says bill that could halt PM’s trial ‘protects elected officials from persecution’
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir criticizes the Attorney General’s Office after it attacked a proposed bill that would allow politicians to halt legal proceedings against cabinet members.
“There is no limit to the irony,” he says. “The attorney general, who has completely politicized the law enforcement system, who fabricates cases against elected officials time and again and routinely cripples the work of the government, states that the bill submitted by MK Son-Har Melech is a political proposal, when it is a proposal intended to protect elected officials from political persecution,” the far-right minister says in a statement.
The bill, proposed by MK Limor Son Har Melech of Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party, is set to be considered today by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, which decides if the government will support a draft law in the Knesset.
“I hope that my colleagues on the Ministerial Committee for Legislation will not be intimidated by yet another attempt by the attorney general to thwart the government’s work, and that they will vote unanimously in favor of advancing the bill,” Ben Gvir says.
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