Communications minister says efforts to remove AG will start in next few weeks

Addressing a conference organized by the right wing Arutz Sheva news website, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi promises to begin the process of removing Attorney General Gali-Baharav Miara from her position in the coming weeks.

“I said that in the next two to three weeks, an actual impeachment process will begin, and that is exactly what will happen,” he says.

“The Justice Minister [Yariv Levin] prepared a hearing with hundreds of examples of illegal activity – things that it would be unthinkable for an attorney general to do. There is no scenario in which she remains in her position. The law states that the attorney general’s role is to advise and assist the government in advancing policy [and] ​​not to block it from within.”

Karhi also states that he plans on establishing a “media committee” in the Knesset in order to bypass the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, whose chairman, MK David Bitan (Likud), has promised to block a controversial bill aimed at shutting down the Kan public broadcaster supported by the minister.

“Unfortunately, there are those within the coalition who are delaying the reforms,” he says, accusing Bitan of “going with the opposition.”

However, “I do not intend to stop,” Karhi states, predicting that “the reforms will be completed by the end of July.”