Far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is set to take control of an expanded police ministry, slams Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara for criticizing a legislative blitz by the incoming government as undemocratic.
“The attorney general mistakenly thinks that she is the real prime minister of of Israel. Any law she disagrees with becomes a ‘danger to democracy,'” says Ben Gvir.
“It’s a shame that she does not participate in the discussions on the bill in the Knesset, because then she would have discovered that the problem is that the police regulations do not allow the minister to set policy, even though in practice all the professionals believe that the minister should set the policy for police activity,” he says.
Baharav-Miara earlier warned that legislation being advanced by the incoming government will weaken the checks on executive power in Israel, and asserted that majority rule without institutional balances to its power could not be considered a true democracy.
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