Rivlin joins MKs in battle against electoral reform

20.03.2013                      09.Nisan. 5773

Innenpolitik:

Rivlin joins MKs in battle against electoral reform

MKs decry coalition deals calling for measure to raise electoral threshold, enactment of Basic Law: Israel as Jewish State.

Electoral reforms delineated in coalition agreements are a danger to democracy, opposition MKs said during a conference at the Knesset Tuesday.
In addition to opposition lawmakers like MKs Nachman Shai (Labor), Moshe Gafni (UTJ), Dov Hanin (Hadash) and Michal Roisin (Meretz), Likud MK and former Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) participated in the conference….