Uri Zaki: Liberman-Bennett post-election plan impossible

As the political system debates various scenarios around election results and the possibility of future legislation to prevent an indicted person from forming a government, left-wing commentator Uri Zaki has issued a sharp clarification, cooling the enthusiasm around the legal moves being discussed.

"Sorry to burst the balloons of Liberman and Bennett, but neither an indictee law nor a term-limit law will be able to apply to Netanyahu without first establishing a government not headed by him," Zaki wrote in a post. According to him, Netanyahu will rightly argue that this is personal, retroactive legislation designed to disqualify the choice of millions of citizens, and his assessment is that the legal system and the High Court will accept this position and immediately strike down the application of such measures.

Zaki continued and warned of the dead end the political system will reach if the opposing camp relies solely on these laws: in a situation where the law cannot constitutionally prevent him from receiving the mandate, or alternatively leads to complete deadlock, Netanyahu will remain in his role as head of a transitional government, and the state will be dragged again and again into additional election cycles. According to his view, the only way to bring about real change in government and end the current era is one and only one — establishing an alternative government that will be formed and headed by someone else.