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Opposition blasts move toward approving bill to split role of AG
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Opposition politicians protest the government’s decision to back a controversial bill splitting the role of the attorney general, framing the move as an effort to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conviction in his ongoing corruption trial.
“A government whose leader is up to his neck in extremely serious criminal and security investigations has no legitimacy to enact laws related to regime change,” tweets The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan, calling the bill “an attempt by a person under investigation to escape justice and weaken the prosecutor.”
“We support the attorney general, who stands firm in defending democracy. We will continue to fight this government with all our might and we’ll put Israel back on track,” Golan states.
“They don’t just want to divide the role of the attorney general, they want to divide the people,” states National Unity chairman Benny Gantz, accusing the government of working to “take us back to October 6, on steroids” — a reference to the fight over the government judicial overhaul efforts before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
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