Sa’ar says splitting AG role ‘an essential and necessary reform’

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar welcomes the Knesset’s approval, in preliminary readings, of a series of nearly identical bills aimed at splitting the role of attorney general and removing the attorney general’s authority to initiate an investigation or prosecution against the prime minister, cabinet minister or lawmaker.

“Splitting the role of the attorney general is an essential and necessary reform in the judicial system. The time has come to put an end to the inherent conflict of interest and the excessive concentration of power embodied in this role,” tweets Sa’ar.

Splitting the attorney general’s role was included in his New Hope party’s coalition agreement in the previous government and New Hope MK Michel Buskila’s bill “is based on my plan,” he says. “It is good that an absolute majority of Knesset members voted in favor of the move, and it must be persisted with until its completion.”