Is there a chance that a fourth election will be avoided at the last minute? Against the background of reports of a possible emergency meeting between the Likud and Blue and White tonight (Thursday), MK Amit Halevi From the Likud party, he spoke with Aryeh Eldad and Roni Bar-On on their program on 103FM and addressed the budget crisis:
Meanwhile, dozens of protesters gathered in front of the home of a blue-and-white chairman Bnei Gantz In Rosh HaAyin and protest against the impending compromise. The demonstrators even waved a giant folding doll to symbolize the folding of the Bnei Gantz. Avi Kaddish, one of the leaders of the countdown, who is organizing the demonstration: “We have now heard in the news that Ganz intends to fold. One time it is stupidity, the second time he becomes an accomplice. Benjamin Netanyahu is charged with crimes, he must not be prime minister and certainly not extend his term. Ganz, Do not fold and go to the polls now! “
Do you see any chance that this government will continue to function and we will not go to the polls?
“I do not know more than what has been published. The door of the Likud is open to continue running the country in partnership. Transferring a budget is a very important action, but if there is no partnership it is impossible to manage that budget. This is our expectation, and this is not what has happened in the last six months. Look, today Bnei Gantz renewed his concept of the unity of Jerusalem with a Palestinian capital, and it is difficult to understand where else he will go. Because in our country everything is basically fair, then the Israeli prime minister is the Minister of Justice, and he does not act according to the summaries of the coalition agreement between the Likud and Blue and White, And keep in mind that there are three days left and Blue and White have to do a mental arithmetic whether they intend to continue it this way or not. If so, then there is no room for a partnership between us. ”
As mentioned, behind the scenes, attempts are continuing to reach agreements and prevent elections. According to sources involved in the details, there is a secret channel between Hod Betzer, the director general of the deputy prime minister’s office, and Netanyahu’s associate, businessman Yaakov Atrakchi (who is one of the architects of the Likud and Blue and White coalition agreement). The solution to the crisis is not the rotation between Netanyahu and Gantz, which is scheduled to take place in November 2021. During the contacts between the parties, it appears that the rotation will be postponed for six months, but will nevertheless take place.
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According to Likud sources, the obstacle lies in the continuation of the tenure of Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn. In a conversation with Maariv, a senior Likud official said: “After a show of terror by Nissenkorn, who appointed 61 judges on his own and without consulting the Likud, in blatant violation of the coalition agreement, it is impossible to continue in partnership with Blue and White without resolving the Justice Ministry appointments.”
The solution proposed by the Likud members for blue and white is: a detailed mechanism that requires appointments in the Ministry of Justice only with the consent of both parties. If Nissenkorn violates the agreement and makes any appointment without the consent of the Likud, according to the proposal in question, Bnei Gantz will undertake to remove Nissenkorn from office. If Gantz does not do so – the rotation will be canceled. Likud officials who are promoting the proposal demand that it be anchored in legislation.
There is a right-wing demonstration tonight in front of the prime minister’s residence in Balfour. The demonstration is taking place because the Prime Minister’s signature on a document confirming the construction of a neighborhood in North Jerusalem, in the area of Atarot Airport, is missing. Amit Halevi, will you be present at this demonstration?
“I’m definitely planning to get there, but let’s call it a rally and not a demonstration. Because MKs and state representatives should not demonstrate and why demonstrate when it can be done? This is a very important neighborhood for the northern strategic axis of Jerusalem. It can be said between Givat Zeev and Pisgat Zeev, both “In the name of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and this is definitely a northern iron wall that needs to be further strengthened. I have told the prime minister more than once that he must continue the move he made in south Jerusalem, and refer to the entire area, the envelope of Jerusalem.”
He promised you annexation and threw it away, promised to sign, but he did not sign. Why do you not join the demonstrations of the left? Why do you not demonstrate ‘just not Bibi’?
“I put all the political pressure I have on this issue. I can update Roni Bar-On that despite Zionism, the Prime Minister sees construction as a strategic goal. We have held several meetings around this issue, and he sees it as a very important value and interested in promoting it. You made me an indecent offer and I’m not willing to accept it, I’m not willing to move into the personal politics of ‘Only Bibi’ or ‘Only not Bibi’. I have been in the Knesset for half a year, and I know you were more, .I say that maybe Netanyahu really hurt democracy because in a reformed democracy there is both a coalition and an opposition, but there is no. No one comes up and says ‘the political agreements are terrible!’ “After all, there have been insane economic investments here in the last month. No one says he has a problem with the security achievements of the State of Israel. Everyone deals only with Bibi or not Bibi. Is this politics? What kind of thing is that?”
So what are you actually expecting?
“We expect the prime minister to approve the construction. He wants to approve the construction, and I guess that will happen.”