No chance PM will admit to wrongdoing in exchange for pardon, cabinet secretary says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not admit to any wrongdoing or give anything in return for a potential presidential pardon over the corruption charges against him, Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs tells the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Berama.

“There is a higher chance of the sun not rising in the morning than the prime minister confessing to crimes he didn’t commit as part of the pardon request,” Fuchs says, days after Netanyahu sent a letter to President Isaac Herzog asking for the trial against him to be canceled.

After some interpreted the language of the premier’s letter as indicating he may halt the judicial overhaul legislation if the trial is stopped, Fuchs says “there is no deal or intention for Netanyahu to get a pardon in return for stopping the judicial reform.”