From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Deri: Judicial overhaul laws will be amended before they are passed
Shas chief Aryeh Deri says the legislation making up the government’s judicial overhaul plan will be amended before passing into law.
“The laws that passed in a first reading will end differently in their second and third readings,” Deri says in an interview on the Kan public broadcaster.
“There will be changes. We’re doing everything we can so that it will be in agreement and dialogue [with the opposition],” he adds, but says calls to freeze the legislation before talks are “hypocrisy.”
One of the bills, coined the “Deri Law 2” by the media, prevents the courts from intervening in cabinet appointments, and is seen as paving the way for Deri to return as a minister after the High Court struck down his appointment as “unreasonable in the extreme.”
