Winner of the legislative elections of November 1, Benjamin Netanyahu, charged with corruption, took the head on December 29 of a government formed with far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, of which certain tenors have been appointed to key positions.
Several thousand Israelis demonstrated this Saturday evening in Tel Aviv against the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, the most right-wing in the country’s history.
“Get out”, “Together against fascism and apartheid”, “Democracy in danger”, could be read on placards brandished by demonstrators who took to the streets of the city center, noted journalists from Agence France -Press (AFP).
Winner of the legislative elections of November 1, Benjamin Netanyahu, charged with corruption, took the head on December 29 of a government formed with far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, of which certain tenors have been appointed to key positions.
“I came here today with thousands of people. It’s the first time but (the movement) will last because we have a problem, extremists are deploying their forces when they do not represent the majority” of the population,” said Omer, a protester who works in Tel Aviv in the high-tech sector.
The new ministerial team has already announced its intentions, among other things, to continue colonization in the Palestinian Territories, to carry out reforms which raise concerns in the LGBT community in particular and its intentions to reform the judicial system.
“We don’t want to see our democracy disappear”
A controversial reform, presented to the press on Wednesday, provides for the introduction of a so-called “derogation clause” which would allow Parliament, with a simple majority vote, to annul a decision of the Supreme Court.
“We don’t want to see our democracy disappear and the Supreme Court be destroyed. We want the government to be controlled,” said Assaf, a lawyer, who declined to give his last name.
Along with Israeli and rainbow-colored flags, protesters in Tel Aviv also brought out t-shirts and banners that were crossed out with the words “Crime minister” in reference to the indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery in a series of cases.
This slogan had been widely taken up during an anti-Netanyahu protest movement which had seen, from 2020 and for months, Israelis meeting every week on Saturday evenings to demand the departure of the one who had already been in office. from 1996 to 1999 then from 2009 to 2021.
The leader of the Likud (right) had been ousted from power in June 2021 by a motley coalition set up to oust him but had promised to return to business.
