On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in Israel postponed the implementation of an amendment to a basic law that protects the Prime Minister from being forced to step down from office if the Attorney General or the Supreme Court orders it to do so.
The court said the amendment would be postponed until the next session of the Israeli parliament, saying it was “clearly of a personal nature” and constituted an abuse of the Knesset’s constituent power, according to a court statement.
Supporters of the law said it aims to protect any democratically elected leader from unfair removal.
But the justices in favor of the postponement said the amendment was approved to serve the needs of a specific individual.
Political watchdog groups and the opposition party questioned the March 23 amendment to the quasi-constitutional “Basic Law” that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attorney general described as designed to preserve his tenure, amid a lengthy trial on corruption charges.
Israel's Supreme Court on Monday struck down a controversial law passed by Netanyahu's far-right government that curtailed some of the court's powers and sparked months of protests across the country.
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