The Constitution Committee approved the new version of the Norwegian law, which will allow no less than 26 Norwegian Knesset members to enter the Knesset, the law will reach the Knesset plenum in the coming days, so far ministers from all coalition parties have resigned.
Among the amendments approved in the law: allowing small factions of up to 3 MKs to use the Norwegian arrangement; canceling the ceiling of 5 Knesset members from each faction who can resign from the Knesset as part of the arrangement and stating that a third of the Knesset members in large factions will be able to use it, a significant change for the Likud faction More according to the amendment: it will not be possible to resign from the Knesset as part of the arrangement during an election period or a transitional government. MKs Seglovic and Karib argued against doubling the coalition’s influence in the Knesset.
The solution to the crisis in Likud? Miri Regev’s new demand
So far, Netanyahu has only managed to find three ministers who have resigned, Transport Minister Miri Regev and a number of other ministers who have not yet resigned from the Knesset, setting a new condition that can solve the crisis of the Norwegians in Likud. Kipa News has learned that Miri Regev of the Likud is demanding that the Norwegian law be changed so that ministers who resign from the Knesset can return to the Knesset in place of the Norwegian MK without resigning from the government. Changing the law will serve a minister who wants to keep his position and at the same time return to serve as a member of the Knesset instead of the Norwegian member of the Knesset who entered in his place.
The law change will actually protect Likud ministers from a scenario similar to the one experienced by former Minister of Religion Matan Kahana who resigned from the position of Minister of Religion in the Bennett Oliment government to return to the Knesset but then failed to return as a minister. In addition, this will allow the ministers to return to the Knesset before legislation that happens to their heart or moments of crisis in the coalition, without giving up the position even for a day.