The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss on Sunday a bill proposed by MK Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz, head of the National Union, that would demand that Knesset members remain loyal to their party's platform, or be ousted from the Knesset faction.
According to the bill, a Knesset Member who is elected to a party's faction must remain loyal to the principles determined by the party's central institution and refrain from acting in a way that is, in its essence, different from the platform.
An MK who does deviate from the platform would receive the same status as one who has chosen to leave his party's faction.
“Knesset Members are elected on the basis of the ideology they adhere to,” Ketzaleh explained. “Faithfulness to the path and to the trust that the public places in its elected officials is a foundation of democracy. The faithfulness of Knesset members to the principles in they were elected upon is not only the proper way of behaving in a democracy, but also a foundation stone in every moral and enlightened society. The elected officials and leaders should behave in a way that is unblemished – and doubly so with regard to ideological issues pertaining to the lives of all of us.”