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Current ruling coalition after establishing government all of sudden decided to do wide reaching reform of supreme court even though that they were running on p
by tguvot 3y ago
Current ruling coalition after establishing government all of sudden decided to do wide reaching reform of supreme court even though that they were running on platform of security and lowering cost of life.
Reform will prevent supreme court from overruling unlawful laws and government actions. It will also give to government ability to pretty much appoint it's own judges to supreme court (currently there is a rather complicated scheme that requires a discussions and compromises). (this is very simplistic overview)(in last 30 years supreme court overruled 22 laws or so).
Big part of population not happy with those changes and been protesting for past 7 months. A good chunk of people (30%-40% or so) who actually voted in current coalition are also against those changes.
Ruling coalition has opinion that because they got majority that can do anything they want because this is democracy. Or something like this.
There was long negotiations between coalition and opposition but they failed.
In reality prime minister probably would have liked to cancel/soften reforms, but it will mean that his coalition will fall apart and current polls predict for them minority after elections
PS. Today passed first law of the reform, which severely limits how supreme court can use "reasonableness" in making it's decisions with regards to government actions
- orwin 3y agoYou shouldn't be able to pass reforms that change how the government is supposed to work without a 60% referendum imho. (or at most, you pass/activate the law but it must be confirmed within a year by referendum, and only in emergency settings).