Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit in his first appearance at the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee since assuming the country’s top legal position in February. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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Laws that aim to provide transparency in election advertisements for political parties should be applied to the Internet and not just to print media, Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said on Thursday in response to a petition.
Lawyer Shahar Ben Meir and another lawyer have petitioned the Central Elections Commission to expand the existing law, which only specifically mentions print media, to the Internet, in light of the changing times and to achieve the law’s purpose regarding transparency during election-season advertising.
The commission will hear the issue on Sunday.
Mandelblit did not completely endorse the petitioner’s position however.
He said that the internet is a complex medium and that some of the broad categories for applying the law to the Internet, which the petitioners suggested, went too far.
Instead, he said that the commission should selectively and cautiously apply the law to the Internet only in clear-cut cases.
In fact, Mandelblit said that it would have been more ideal for the Knesset or a minister to issue official new amendments or regulations to expand the existing law to include the Internet and not to leave the issue to the commission to deal with it in an ad hoc manner.
Still, since there is no time for the Knesset or a minister to make this change before the April 9 election, Mandelblit supported the petition so long as the commission cautiously applied the transparency law to the internet.
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