Photo: Danny Shem Tov, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
While the party leaders, from the opposition and the coalition, are discussing this week’s legislative arrangements to reach agreements, he took advantage of their absence, the deputy chairman of the coalition, MK Boaz Toporovsky, to convene the Knesset committee and vote on limiting legislative time.
Article 98 of the Knesset Regulations stipulates a limit on the number of reservations, the length of speeches and the number of votes, so that it will not be held for more than a few hours. In the morning, a discussion was held on the application of the sections on the Knesset’s legislation in the last week before the holiday, but the move encountered difficulties on the part of the Knesset’s legal counsel.
Tonight, in front of the speaker, Sagit Afik, Toporovsky hastily convened the Knesset committee, and put the items to a vote with record speed, voting alone and passing “unanimously” Article 98 on all coalition laws.
Toporovsky passes the sections “unanimously” (Knesset Spokeswoman)
A Knesset committee spokesman said: “A revision has been submitted on the vote. The re-vote will be discussed later in the evening.”
MK Katie Sheetrit from the Likud responded: “I have been in politics for 30 years, I have been a member of the Knesset for 4 years and I do not remember such a thing!
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