Opposition warns Monday’s mass protest ‘just the start’ if bills move forward

At the committee hearing, opposition MKs assail the coalition for moving forward full steam ahead with legislation.

MK Karine Elharrar (Yesh Atid) tells chairman Rothman: “How are you not ashamed? Yesterday you offered emotionally ‘Let’s talk.’ Where is your honesty? Not a day has passed since that statement to the media, and here you are again with your bulldozer to trample democracy.”

Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovich says Rothman should accept the president’s call to immediately halt the process to enable talks, warning that if the coalition does not do so, yesterday’s mass protest in Jerusalem was “just the start.”

Likud MK Ariel Kelner backs Rothman, saying, “It’s clear to all that a deep reform is needed in the justice system. There is a system here that has penetrated issues it has no authority over, as though it is some sort of super branch [of government].”