By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent: PM pushes bill for open ballot in bid to back Peres for president
Talkback
Title:Corruption --- grand scale.
Name:Allan Leibler
City: JerusalemState: Israel
If Olmert manages to push through changes to our electoral system and deny a secret ballot just to suit Peres` presidential ambitions, then the entire Knesset will be held guilty of introducing the rule of institutionalised corruption on a grand scale.
After that, Israel will need a successful Guy Fawkes!(joke;|) But that will become the local and international perception of the Knesset`s role and status, and we will truly have become a banana republic.