Protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court of Justice building as 11 justices convened on Thursday morning to hear arguments on delaying the application of the incapacitation law until the next government.
“The hearing taking place today is practically an [attempted] annulment of election results,” said Justice Minister Yariv Levin in a statement on Thursday morning before the High Court incapacitation law postponement hearing.
The hearing is the second on the March 23 incapacitation law, which altered the conditions for the procedure to have the prime minister declared unfit for service. The law clarified that the incapacitation procedure can only be activated for health reasons, and only after approval by the prime minister and a series of votes by the government and Knesset Home Committee.
Trying to impeach the prime minister
“The petitioners are actually trying to impeach Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu,” Levin claimed on Thursday morning, “in order to put an end to right-wing rule.”
“They failed at the ballot box, and now they want to cancel election results.”
The law was an abuse of the Knesset’s constituent authority, the petitioners argued to three justices on August 3, because the legislation was passed with the intent of shoring up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s legal position.
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