Oliver Pitosi, Flash 90
Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu will ask the President to extend the period in which he holds the mandate to form the government, this in light of the difficulties arising on the way to forming his sixth government.
According to the report in Khan 11, Netanyahu’s plan to request the extension of the mandate stems from the Likud’s assessment that they will not be able to satisfy the government by the end of the mandate’s current deadline, in 12 days.
The extension of the mandate is intended to give Netanyahu a margin of time that will allow him to replace the Speaker of the Knesset, pass the Deri Law and more.
Earlier we reported that a few hours ago the new coalition began the process to replace the speaker of the Knesset. According to estimates, the vote on the replacement of Miki Levy with a member of the Knesset from the Likud will be held this coming Monday.
As of now, 60 members of the Knesset have already submitted their signatures to replace the speaker of the Knesset, with the missing MKs being a Shas MK, a Likud MK and two religious Zionist MKs.
The leading candidate for Levy’s replacement is Knesset member Yariv Levin, who will initially serve as Knesset Speaker until the cases are divided in the ruling party. According to estimates, Levin is a candidate for Minister of Justice, and therefore he will resign at a later stage and the chairmanship vacancy will be vacated in favor of another Knesset candidate from the Likud.
However, in Likud they fear that Levin’s appointment will become permanent and many Knesset members who consider themselves worthy of the position will be forced to accept Levin’s appointment. The reason for the concern is that Levin is no longer interested in the legal case with the same motivation that he had a few weeks ago, which will cause him to stay in his position and not resign in favor of the legal case.
In the same matter: Although the Likud has not yet formed a final candidate to serve as the permanent speaker of the Knesset, Miki Levy makes it clear that he will not delay the vote itself to determine his replacement for the 25th Knesset.
In a speech at Reichman University, Levy said: “Contrary to all kinds of publications that I was surprised to hear about, I do not intend to deliberately delay the election of the next Knesset Speaker. I have great respect for the institution that I head, and an orderly change of government is a supreme democratic value to me. When the request of 61 members arrives Knesset, I will examine it and convene the plenary according to the law and the High Court ruling on the matter within a few days, subject to the agenda of the Knesset plenary.”
As a reminder, the term of Knesset Speaker Miki Levy from the Yesh Atid party was automatically extended from the inauguration of the current Knesset until a new speaker is elected, in a vote to be held in the Knesset plenum.
According to the law, from the moment a request is submitted to determine a vote on a substitute, the incumbent Knesset speaker has one week to insert the vote into the schedule of the Knesset plenum.
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