8 February 2012, Jews for Justice for Palestinians http://jfjfp.com (Britain)
Former Mossad chief Dagan kicks off new movement to enact changes to political system, decries power of minority groups.
By JPOST.Com staff
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan on Wednesday kicked off a new movement calling for changes in the political system, saying, “We must demand that when the prime minister is making fateful strategic decisions, such as action against Iran, he will not give in to or have his hand forced by political pressure.”
Dagan, who cannot run for the next Knesset due to the cooling off period law, spoke about the vision of his new movement called “Yesh Sicui” (there is a chance) at aconference in Tel Aviv.
“The state of Israel faces great challenges, some of them from within: impossible chasms, sectoral tendencies which have minority and pressure groups controlling the state while the majority is not heard and has no way to realize its desires,” Dagan stated.
Dagan called on changes to Israel’s political system, including raising the threshold of votes needed for a party to reach the Knesset to three percent, having 50% of MKs elected in regional elections and making it mandatory that the prime minister be from the party which receives the most votes in the election.
The former Mossad chief also decried the large number of ministers in the current government, calling on the maximum amount of ministers in a government to be 16.
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