Derech Eretz is one of many small coalition factions that have suggested to primary parties to compromise on their budget dispute.
He is wary of a component choice because he has failed to cross the 3.25% threshold to enter the Knesset in all recent surveys.
Likud and Kakhol Lavan are expected to lose seats in an election, according to polls.
Netanyahu and Gantz have been caught in a bitter impasses over the state budget that threatens to overthrow the government and force new elections. Netanyahu and Gantz agreed to approve a two-year budget covering 2020 and 2021 as a component of the coalition agreement between its components signed in May, but the prime minister is now calling for a budget covering the remainder of 2020, raising uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Gantz insists on a budget that extends to next year, mentions previous agreements and insists that it would help stabilize a declining economy. He is involved in Netanyahu planning to use next year’s budget negotiations as an excuse to dismantle the government in order to a force movement in November 2021 as a component of his agreement to rotate prime ministers.
While Netanyahu will have to hand over the post of prime minister to Gantz if he calls new elections before Kakhol’s leader lavan assumes the post of prime minister in November 2021, the coalition agreement made an exception for failing to approve a budget, which led to the hypothesis of the Likud leader. Now the budget crisis forced the avoidance of having to leave the workplace in 15 months.
Netanyahu and Gantz agreed to create an emergency unit government in May due to the pandemic, after three consecutive election rounds, in April 2019, September 2019 and March 2020, without achieving a transparent winner.