Lapid slams religious Zionism legal reform plan, will ‘destroy democracy’

18 October 2022, 8:17 pm

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Prime Minister and Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid slams a legal reform proposal put forward by the far-right Religious Zionism party, saying it would “destroy democracy.”

“If this gang gets into power, they’ll make every effort to destroy Israeli democracy, to cancel all the authority of the courts, to destroy the separation of powers in Israel. They don’t even bother to hide this anymore,” Lapid says.

Lapid says it’s a blatant attempt to get Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu off the hook in his corruption trial.

“It’s a deliberate campaign to cancel Netanyahu’s trial, and if they cancel Netanyahu’s trial by using political power that would mean that Israeli democracy is no longer Israeli democracy as we know it. We’re battling against this,” Lapid says.