After giving the coalition partners everything they wanted with a ministerial key for every two MKs and giving them some of the most senior offices, Netanyahu tasted the new task at the end of the week, distributing the files to the Likud members, one by one they will enter his office, with quite a few expected to leave disappointed.
“It hurts my status”
“Bibi has 19 cases, but most of them are absolutely nothing,” said a Likud official this week who is also expected to not get the position he wants, according to him, Netanyahu’s problem is that no one wants these cases, anyone who has never been a minister will agree to take any position , but someone who was a serious minister does not want to be a junior minister. “It hurts my status, to actually go backwards,” one of them said this week.
Netanyahu had to deal with some disgruntled people, what they have in common is that they were Likud seniors, but were relegated in the primaries, so they are sure they are still seniors, and they are not interested in the new blood that overtook them in the list elections. Among the prominent names that may unite together against Netanyahu, you can find Yuli Edelstein, Danny Danon, Dodi Amsalem David Bitan and Israel Katz. Netanyahu, who has made a name for himself as a master at dismantling opponents in Likud, is focused on dismantling the danger.
Although it is not a coordinated group, Bibi is currently completely in the event of breaking them up and leaving only two disgruntled, along the way he will bribe some, and leave some behind. The first solution is with Bitan who is interested in the economic committee and Bibi Naot to give him the position. Later, he will decide whether to give Amsalem the position of Speaker of the Knesset and possibly bribe another person in the position of a senior minister. Two disgruntled people will no longer be able to destabilize the coalition, at most they will disappear with important laws. At the same time, Netanyahu conveyed a message that a law will be enacted allowing four members of the Knesset to split, but only for a third Faction, at the moment it does not seem that the law will be enacted before the government is sworn in, but the threat is there.
How many positions in Likud of senior and former senior officials put the faction in a problematic position? Netanyahu is having trouble finding a suitable candidate for the position of chairman of the coalition, the new senior officials are thirsty for the position of minister and the former senior officials are not interested in entering the position after previously serving as ministers. The hot name at the moment is Knesset member Ofir Katz, but several Likud officials claim that a stronger figure is needed in the party who can to influence MKs. So Netanyahu hopes that one of the seniors will come to take the position.
This is how Netanyahu pressured the coalition partners
On Wednesday morning and in a rather unusual manner, the chairman of the finance committee, Knesset member Moshe Gaffi, summoned the Knesset reporters to his office, the reason – to explain how it happened that he folded before Netanyahu and signed an attachment of duties even though he stated that he would only sign a full agreement. Gafni claimed that it was only a letter of duties, the journalists did not I was impressed. After the meeting, an official in Torah Judaism told me that there is no doubt that Netanyahu is working on the coalition partners with the attached positions. A concept that did not exist that much in the past. Netanyahu saw the problematic demands in the negotiations and signed the partners only on positions, after swindling them, at the last minute They will also sign the coalition agreement without the clauses they wanted.