The petition, filed by Channel 12 News, says the communications minister told the company CEO Avi Weiss he sought to change the law such that broadcasters would "act in accordance with" the prime minister's requests to interfere in news content

Right-wing lawmakers have cast the former army chief and current opposition leader as politically aligned with the Democrats, despite his efforts to maintain a centrist image, in what some say is an attempt to shift attention from the coalition's shortcomings ahead of October's election