MK Kruizer promotes bill requiring loyalty declaration as condition for voting and running for Knesset

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MK Kruizer of Otzma Yehudit submitted a bill that would require every voter and every Knesset candidate to declare loyalty to the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Refusal to declare would lead to revoking the right to vote or to be elected, and to ending the tenure of a Knesset member.

Under the proposal, a Knesset member who refuses to declare allegiance would lose his rights and his salary, and may even lose his seat. The proposal is the first bill of Otzma Yehudit in the new Knesset.

Otzma Yehudit chairman MK Ben Gvir said: "Whoever wants to vote and be elected to the Knesset of Israel should first declare loyalty." MK Kruizer said that whoever supports terrorists will not determine the future of the state.