“I have reason to believe that the Knesset will not disperse this week”

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The countdown continues, but the Shas chairman believes that at least this week the Knesset will not be dispersed. In a statement to the media after being vaccinated against the corona virus at a United Health Fund medical center in Jerusalem, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said: “I have reason to believe that the Knesset will not disperse. Unfortunately, the elections on March 23 are still on the table. Everyone will understand for themselves what this is all about. “

Deri expressed hope that today or tomorrow there will be progress in preventing the dispersal of the Knesset: “It is not allowed to go to the polls, it is unnecessary, the people do not want it. We need to reach understandings “.

Interior Minister Aryeh DeriInterior Minister Aryeh Deri

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after the vaccination

(Photo: Eli Mandelbaum )

In a meeting held yesterday between blue and white executives, Introduced party leaders to Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn The outlines for changing the government work proposed by the Likud to prevent elections, but he refused. A party source accused Nissenkorn of acting to keep his seat and not interested in the party’s good. On the other hand, Nissenkorn’s associates said that “the Likud’s demands are dangerous and insane. Anyone who thinks we can abandon all the mechanisms of the rule of law to Netanyahu is living in a hallucination.”

Their compromise lines are expected by Chairman Bnei Gantz to agree are a first reading vote on the 2021 budget and a conclusion that a third reading will be made no later than mid-January; Amit Isman will be eliminated and replaced by another candidate; the rest of the appointments will be made by agreement; a committee will be set up to decide in any case where a dispute is discovered in a bill in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.

This afternoon, Ganz, Ashkenazi and Nissenkorn said that “the media discourse is false and does not express the conduct of Blue and White. Civil wars are reserved for other parties, we work together to achieve the principles of Blue and White. We will not compromise on a functioning government. A state budget that will take care of the economic corona. ” Meanwhile, blue-white chairman and defense minister Bnei Gantz, Also met last night with a former Knesset member Gideon Saar, Who retired from the Likud and formed a party in which he will run in the next election.

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