Attempts to calm the coalition since last Monday’s vote crashed to the ground when today (Wednesday) the coalition suffered another organizational failure in the Knesset plenum when MK Ahmad Tibi’s minimum wage law passed in a preliminary reading. Foreign Minister Lapid and Justice Minister stormed to prevent the coalition members’ plenum vote in favor of the bill, but in practice members of the Meretz, Labor and RAAM parties decided to support it and the law passed. The fact that once again the coalition leaders have failed to impose discipline has severely challenged the Knesset members who are already considering their way in recent weeks.
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Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who was interviewed tonight on News 12, announced that he would postpone the budget discussions in order to try and make internal order in the coalition. Meaning: The budget discussions in the government scheduled for the end of June will be postponed to an unknown date and subject to the coalition’s survival until then, given the rebel culture within its ranks.
Despite threats from Prime Minister Mansour Abbas and Meretz Speaker Nitzan Horowitz, MKs Mazen Ghanaim and Jida Rinawi Zoabi still insist today that they continue to vote in accordance with the order of their conscience and do not accept their party leaders’ proposals for early retirement. Meaning: If next week If the Judea and Samaria law goes up for a new vote, it is not expected to pass.
Meanwhile, Auerbach is not taking any real steps against the coalition
These two are joined by MK Nir Orbach and the chairman of the Economy Committee, Michael Bitton, who announced that if his demands are not met, he will return to the plenum to vote against the coalition in the coming Monday. In a situation where there are so many burning cuts at the same time, there is no one left who believes that the coalition will survive the summer conference.
MK Nir Orbach’s entourage says that even after the fall of the Judea and Samaria Regulations Law on Monday, a decision was made to end the government’s path. As you may recall, that evening MK Mazen Ghanaim said: “The experiment with you has failed,” but in the meantime Orbach has not taken any real steps against the coalition and right-wingers claim that he is coordinated with Minister Ayelet Shaked on his next steps.
However, the opposition claims Orbach’s contacts with the Likud to join the next government, while at the same time there are also two other contacts with Minister Zeev Elkin of New Hope and with people on behalf of Ayelet Shaked.
Talks on forming a government in this Knesset have reached practical lines and the questions that remain open are who will serve as an agreed justice minister and the question of guarantees throughout the existence of the government that will arise for fear that Netanyahu will lead the elections and the end of a new hope. It should be noted that the allegations regarding negotiations with the Likud are regularly rejected with new hope.
“The left-wing parties in the coalition are acting in a populist way”
Meanwhile, Saar party officials returned tonight threatening the coalition’s future after members of the left-wing parties decided to support the bill to raise the minimum wage and said that “the coalition’s decision was to vote against the law. “In a systematic and irresponsible manner against government decisions, they violate coalition discipline and work to dismantle the government.”
Write in front of you: The coalition finally disbanded this week. Expect surprises very soon.
Israel Lives!– Arie Makhlouf Deri (@ariyederi) June 8, 2022
Into this cauldron, Shas chairman Deri added the following tweet and caused the rumor mill to get over: “Write in front of you: the coalition has finally disbanded this week. Expect surprises very soon.” The chairman of Religious Zionism, Bezalel Smutrich, also tweeted similar things: “If anyone still had doubts that this coalition had disbanded and everyone in it was already deep in an election campaign that would look at this day in the Knesset.” This is no longer a forecast, but a description of the situation.