Wheels fall off of plea bargain negotiations between Netanyahu, AG

Providing more context to the video that opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu released an hour ago, in which he declared that he would continue leading the Likud party, Hebrew media reports that negotiations between the ex-premier and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to reach a plea bargain that would bring an end to the former prime minister’s corruption trial have fallen apart.

Channel 12 notes though that in Netanyahu’s statement, in which he denies having agreed to a moral turpitude clause that would require his exit from politics for seven years, the opposition leader does not deny the existence of the negotiations, despite his longtime insistence on the illegitimacy of the cases against him.

Furthermore, he does not deny that he might be willing to reach a plea deal in the future.