The Knesset committee today (Monday) discussed an amendment to the Basic Law: The Knesset, in an attempt to pass an amendment to the law that will delay the date of the budget transfer, in order to postpone the election.
Gantz, about three weeks ago: “I will meet with the Minister of Finance, this or budget immediately – or elections” // Photo: From Bnei Gantz’s Facebook
Since the committee’s chairman, MK Eitan Ginzburg of White Brush, was forced to stay in solitary confinement, he was replaced by MK Yitzhak Pindros of Torah Judaism.
MK Boaz Toporovsky Mish Atid-Telam argued that changing the law requires the support of 80 Knesset members, to which the committee’s legal adviser, Adv. Arbel Astrakhan, replied that the bill “requires a simple majority because the law is not armored. Only the section of the alternative government is armored and it requires a special majority. “In response, MK Toporovsky announced that he would petition the High Court.
During the hearing, the director general of the Central Election Commission, Adv. Orly Adas, said: “We have met the challenges, but the bill puts us on hold until January 5. If elections do take place, we will have 76 days for the most complex election campaign we have ever had. Practical time.This is not a professional ability but it is impossible.If we do not start work immediately and we do not have 90 working days, there is a danger of holding the election properly, as we expect.We do not seek to be in the considerations of election dates. However, as you legislate the law, add clauses that will allow us to start preparing immediately and not wait to see what develops. The intention is to prepare and receive advances of NIS 60 million, which will allow us to go out to tenders. “
Coalition chairman MK Miki Zohar of the Likud said: “We must respond to the words of the director general of the election committee. The Acting Spokesman for the Knesset, Adv. Sagit Afek, said that the budget of the Election Committee should be approved by the Finance Committee. I suggest that the Election Committee submit a budget for approval to the Finance Committee.
MK Pindros read: “Meet urgently and prepare a budget proposal. “Most likely, the election will be held on March 23, 2021.”
The right-wing faction stated that they would vote against any rejection of any kind. “This bad government must go home immediately, and only a new leadership will be able to fix Israel,” it said on the right. “ToNo matter, because Netanyahu and Gantz’s political games will stop government activity on January 1, we call on this evil government, just before its dissolution, to pass the amendment to the Basic Law of the State Economy prepared by the Ministry of Finance, In the fateful months ahead. “
The discussion in the committee takes place after last night Blue and White announced that it intends to promote a bill today According to which the state budget for 2020 will be passed by December 31st and that of 2021 will be summed up by January 5th. The goal is to allow dialogue on the issue of going to the polls by Tuesday at midnight. If the budgets are not passed by the deadlines, the Knesset will disperse on Tuesday night, and the elections will be held on March 23..
The Likud claimed that Blue and White’s message did not match them. After a blue-and-white announcement, the tweet was posted on the Likud’s Twitter account: “If anyone believes that the Likud will agree to return to ‘government within government’ – it lives in the film.” Shortly afterwards, Blue and White posted a comment tweet themselves: “If anyone thinks Blue and White would agree to the criminal trampling of a judge on the appointment of judges and law enforcement officials – he’s alive in the movie.”
One of the proposals that has come up to ensure the transfer of the budget is that if it does not pass, Bnei Gantz will replace Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. In blue and white, they are, in fact, trying to close the loopholes in Netanyahu’s exit points along the way. The Likud demands the postponement of the rotation and the blue and white demand that it be maintained on time. In addition, the parties discussed the issue of working procedures and decision-making in the work of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation and in principle the privacy, which the Likud is trying to change.
It should be noted that even if agreements are reached, the time frame for passing the necessary changes in Knesset legislation is short to impossible, and therefore the main solution is to postpone the decisions.