Lapid: If Netanyahu Reelected, He’ll Seek To Place Himself above The Law

By Staff, Agencies

Yair Lapid of the Zionist entity’s centrist Blue and White party said on Wednesday that ‘Israel’ is “in the midst of a crisis” with its ‘democracy’ being undermined by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the upcoming Knesset elections would be a referendum on corruption.

If Netanyahu is reelected, Lapid said, he would immediately pass legislation to give himself immunity from prosecution in the three corruption cases for which, the attorney general announced last week, he is facing criminal charges.

“It’s a crisis, I’m telling you, where corruption is penetrating our lives. Where the government, instead of protecting democracy, is attacking democracy,” Lapid warned.

Lapid said he was convinced that if reelected, Netanyahu would do his utmost to pass a series of three laws “as quickly as possible” that would provide him with immunity from prosecution — “there’s no doubt in my mind” about this.

The first would be “the immunity bill, introduced today by Bezalel Smotrich, that says you are not allowed to take a sitting prime minister to court,” said Lapid. “He will pass the extended French bill, which says that police may not even investigate a prime minister. Finally, he will pass a bill significantly limiting the ability of the Supreme Court to overrule bills” — so that the court cannot overrule those first two laws. “This is ‘the end of the world as we know it,’ as the song says,” warned Lapid.

Lapid said that such laws, if passed, would place the prime minister above the law.