Lapid rejects offer to meet with Levin and Rothman over judicial reforms
Lapid said that he would not be willing to meet for negotiations until the legislation has been entirely halted for the duration of the talks.
By ELIAV BREUER
Published: FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) and Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) announced on Monday that they had reached out to opposition leader and Yesh Atid chair MK Yair Lapid and National Unity chair MK Benny Gantz in order to set a joint meeting at the president's residence, "even as soon as tonight."
"We call on the heads of the opposition to begin a dialogue without preconditions. The time has come," Levin and Rothman wrote. Lapid responded, "As the president stressed in his speech and as was explained over and over again, the necessary condition to begin national dialogue is an immediate stop of all of the legislative processes for a set time, in which there will be dialogue with the president's mediation. If minister Levin and MK Rothman agree, we would be happy to meet at the president's residence tomorrow morning.
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Lapid said that he would not be willing to meet for negotiations until the legislation has been entirely halted for the duration of the talks.
By ELIAV BREUER
Published: FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) and Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) announced on Monday that they had reached out to opposition leader and Yesh Atid chair MK Yair Lapid and National Unity chair MK Benny Gantz in order to set a joint meeting at the president's residence, "even as soon as tonight."
"We call on the heads of the opposition to begin a dialogue without preconditions. The time has come," Levin and Rothman wrote. Lapid responded, "As the president stressed in his speech and as was explained over and over again, the necessary condition to begin national dialogue is an immediate stop of all of the legislative processes for a set time, in which there will be dialogue with the president's mediation. If minister Levin and MK Rothman agree, we would be happy to meet at the president's residence tomorrow morning.
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