The highest jurisdiction has summoned the Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, to dismiss Arié Deri, leader of the ultraorthodox party shass.
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The Israeli Supreme Court invalidated, Wednesday, January 18, the appointment of the Minister of the Interior, Arié Déri, who was found guilty of tax fraud. The Israeli deputies had voted at the end of December to the month of December a text, baptized “law derived” by the press, authorizing a person found guilty of a crime, but not condemned to a prison sentence, to Obtain a ministerial portfolio, so as to allow the leader of the Shass Ultraorthodox Party to enter the government of Benyamin Netanyahu.
“The Supreme Court decided that the appointment of the deputy arié derier as Minister of the Interior and Health could not be validated,” said the highest Israeli jurisdiction, in a press release. “The Prime Minister must dismiss him,” she continues, recalling that Mr. Déri had announced at the beginning of 2022, after his conviction, that he withdrew from political life.
He presented himself in the legislative elections of November and was re -elected, then appointed Minister of the Interior and Health in the Coalition Government formed by the right, the extreme right and the ultraorthodox.
Fundamental laws prohibit an accused Israeli citizen – and a fortiori condemned – to occupy a ministerial post. The judiciary, alone capable of ensuring their application and respecting individual rights, therefore invalidated this appointment on Wednesday, despite the “derier law”.
attack on democracy
The Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, presented at the beginning of the month a project to reform the judicial system which includes the introduction of a “derogatory” clause allowing in Parliament to be over a decision of the Supreme Court. The date of examination in Parliament is not yet known, but the project has already aroused protests. Several tens of thousands of people demonstrated this weekend, in particular to claim the abandonment of this project that many consider as an attack on democracy.
If Arié “derier is not dismissed, the government will be outlawed and a government which does not respect the law is an illegitimate government,” reacted the leader of the opposition, Yaïr Lapid.
m. Derre, 63, was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1992 under the banner of Shass, which he led for years, and was minister in several governments. In 2000, he had been sentenced to three years in prison for corruption and released after having served two thirds of his sentence.