Netanyahu said Israel will have to “paint in combination” to cope with the demanding situations it faces, and address COVID-19 and its economic consequences, frustrate Iran, strengthen security and achieve new normalization agreements with Arab states. “Let’s come together and paint in combination for those vital goals,” he said.
He also suggested the national devout Yamina party to sign up for the government. Yamina is said to have subsequently turned down the offer. “Netanyahu threw Yamina into the opposition and dismantled the right-wing bloc,” party resources were quoted as saying via the devout national news site Srugim.
In an example of a dysfunctional relationship between himself and the rival coalition party, Netanyahu indicated in reaction to a query that he had not informed Gantz before the press convention that he accepted the election proposal.
Netanyahu also asked if there would be any other crisis in 3 months and if he would hand over the prime minister post to Gantz in November 2021 as promised. He said there is no need for crisis if the government works properly.
Before the press conference, a blue and white called on Netanyahu “to regain control and go back to seeing what is smart for the country, rather than what is smart for him. ” With nine million citizens waiting for unity and a solution to security [challenges] and the coronavirus, Likud is busy with political tricks.
In addition to the extension of the budget deadline, reports have indicated that the proposed compromise will also see the parties approve more spending, as they present a new budget; agree to focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic and influenza during the winter; as well as possible threats to security on the northern and southern borders; and form a committee to evaluate how senior officials are selected.
No senior official appointments will be made until the committee publishes its findings, however Channel 12 reported Sunday that the Likud is an exception to the variety of a new chief of police. Netanyahu has denied making such a request.
If Hauser’s bill allows the Knesset finance committee to vote Sunday night, then he will have to pass his timing and third plenary reading of the law.
Netanyahu’s announcement Sunday night came after his ultra-Orthodox coalition allies, the Shas parties and United Torah Judaism, said a compromise agreement had been reached that Likud and Blue and White had backed.
According to Hebrew media reports, they demanded and received approval of another 400 million shekels ($ 117 million) for ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, who were denied the budget due to lack of budget.
The lack of a budget means that the passing government is operating under the 2019 budget, limited to spending 1/12 of last year’s budget month. Reports said the deferral law would come with a not easy clause of a 2. 5% accrual in the budget for 2020 during 2019, a component of which will move on to ultra-Orthodox seminars.
Shortly before Netanyahu spoke, Channel 13 issued a ballot in which it appeared that Likud would drop from 36 to 31 seats if a new election takes place today.
Following the Likud in the poll, opposition leader Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid, with 19 seats, and the devoted national Yamina party, which once allied with Netanyahu but has been excluded from the existing government, are making plans to scale with 18 seats.
The not unusual Arab majority list is expected to drop from 15 to 13 seats, while the vote indicated that Blue and White would only win 11.
The right-wing secular party of MP Avigdor Liberman Yisrael Beytenu would win 8 seats, while Shas and UTJ would win 7 and the left-wing Meretz party 6.
The Labor parties, Derech Eretz, Gesher and the Jewish Home had to cross the electoral threshold.
Overall, the vote gave 63 seats to the right and parties, enough for a majority to add Yamina.
The ballot also found that 50% of voters believed that the “main factor” influencing Netanyahu’s political decisions was “his legal future” and only 18% believed that he primarily weighs “the interests of the state. “
If there were elections now, according to the poll, 59% would blame Netanyahu and 20% Gantz.
At the center of the current coalition crisis is whether the government adopts a budget that includes 2021, as stipulated in the coalition agreement and supported through Gantz, or a budget that only covers the rest of 2020, as the Likud due to uncertainty. caused through the pandemic.
Blue and White accused Netanyahu of intentionally seeking to violate the coalition agreement with his sudden call for a one-year budget to allow himself a long-term window in next year’s budget negotiations to dissolve the government. This would mean handing over the post of prime minister to Gantz in November 2021, as stipulated in the coalition agreement.
Netanyahu is also said to call for greater force on high-level appointments, adding senior law enforcement officials, adding the next public prosecutor, in violation of previous agreements. Reacting to a Sunday night, he said he did not intend to seek the appointment of a new police commissioner and a new prosecutor.
Blue and White Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said on Saturday that Netanyahu was pushing for elections for his “personal and legal reasons” related to his trial, implying that the prime minister expects a new Knesset can generate a majority of legislators. in a position before the law that can frustrate the legal proceedings in the 3 judicial instances that oppose him.
The best economists who adopt a budget that spans 2020 and 2021 makes the most sense, as a budget for 2020 just a few months before the end of the year wouldn’t make much sense. Netanyahu says the uncertainty due to the pandemic makes planning so far in advance highly unlikely.
President Reuven Rivlin has held talks in recent days with the leaders of the coalition parties in an attempt to save him a new election. Rivlin said on Sunday that he continued his circular of talks with the leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Liberman, a member of the opposition.