“The experiment with you failed”: The three words that MK Nir Orbach slammed yesterday in MK Mazen Ghanaim in the plenum after the fall of the Judea and Samaria Regulations Law were the ones that marked the future of the government. After a day of pressure and threats on Ghanaian political future he decided to vote against the law. Even his three party members did not withstand the pressure from home and finally avoided and left the plenum in the moment of truth.
Just a few hours earlier, it was Minister Gideon Saar who said in the Knesset that regardless of the results of the vote on the coalition factions to support the law, he added: Taha and the Yassin Brigade who led yesterday (Monday) with their own hands to dissolve the coalition.
Substitute Prime Minister Yair Lapid was quick to tweet “as always after a loss-we will return stronger in the next round.” But a short time later, the reappointment of Matan Kahana as Minister of Religions also fell in a draw 55. MK Idit Silman recorded her first vote against the coalition.
It is likely that many more will follow, and together with the unpredictable conduct of RAAM members and MK Rinawi Zoabi, the coalition does not have the majority needed for its survival regardless of the threat of an attack, but assuming no Arab Knesset member takes an active action to dismantle the government .
The cards of Saar and the victim of Meretz
What will Gideon Saar do? In speeches that preceded the vote mainly of Minister Zeev Elkin, there was a psychological war between him and his former partners. Elkin shocked them so that it would seem that all the peace talks that are taking place behind the scenes do not really make the partnership with the Likud in this Knesset in another government viable.
Next week, Saar will be able to bring the law to a vote once again, but if another Knesset member of the coalition is not miraculously born, there is no way to pass the law. The deadline for the expiration of the regulations will be recalled: the end of June, when Saar’s ultimatum regarding the continued existence of the government will be examined.
The vote on the Judea and Samaria Regulations Law in the Knesset showed how far Meretz members are willing to go to preserve the coalition of which they are members.
But this time their ideological victim, as opposed to Rinawi-Zoabi’s counter-vote, proved that it was impossible to maintain a coalition of rebels. Meretz wants the government but Rinawi-Zoabi will decide its fate.
During the night, pressure increased on Zoabi to resign from the Knesset as on Ghanaians, but these are only the weekly rebels. In a week’s, we will also return to the threats of Michael Bitton and the one that will come after him. With the exception of the prime minister who said yesterday on several occasions to reporters that the future of the government is certain, it is already clear to everyone that the coalition has finished its way and the open question is who will sign the death / graduation certificate one year after its inauguration.