2023-07-30 17:37:10
During the night of this Saturday, tens of thousands of Israelis continued to protest throughout the country once morest the controversial law promoted by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuwhich limits the power of the Supreme Court.
In different parts of the country, from the hills of the northern Galilee to the avenues of the popular center of Tel Aviv, protesters gathered in the streets othey waved flags, beat drums and honked horns from their cars, while chants were repeated once morest the controversial norm
This new wave of protests, together with a strong crisis and a deep social division, returned to gain strength last Monday, when despite the claims the ruling party approved the first part of the judicial reform promoted by Netanyahu and his government. In turn, the demonstrations once morest the initiative itself have already been 30 weeks old.
Specifically, pro-government legislators approved a measure that prevents judges from using judicial standards of reasonableness to review government decisionswhich is made up of ultra-Orthodox and ultra-right parties.
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For their part, political watchdog groups, including the Israel Bar Association, have appealed to the Supreme Court of that country to revoke the judicial reform that removes the authority of the highest court to annul those government decisions that it considers “unreasonable”.
In this regard, the Court stated that in September it will hear the arguments in this regard, giving way to a eventual constitutional confrontation.
In the other side, the Israeli prime minister has tried to minimize the impact of the new legislation that was ratified this week following a heated debate in Parliament in the framework of a vote “boycotted” by the opposition. According to him, this is one of the necessary changes to balance the powers of the State.
On the contrary, critics of the government maintain that it is a threatens Israel’s democratic principles, the balance of powers and the independence of the courts, in the face of a corruption case faced by the official. In any case, Netanyahu denies this hypothesis as well as the charges once morest him.
Likewise, the press headlined the news with the phrase: A black day for Israeli democracy and several media outlets even published their covers painted black in protest. With regard to the public eye, different surveys recorded that a 62% of citizens have a negative view of management current government.
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