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Disappointed by Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz votes for the dissolution of the Israeli parliament
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s partner in Israel’s unity government, Benny Gantz, voted in favor of an opposition motion on Wednesday to dissolve parliament. Since this is a preliminary vote, Benny Gantz mainly tries to put pressure on the Prime Minister. Disagreeing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the budget, Benny Gantz gave his support on Wednesday (December 2) to an opposition motion calling for the dissolution of Parliament, which could lead to a fourth legislative ballot in two years. The motion got 61 votes in favor, including that of Benny Gantz, on Wednesday afternoon, while 54 MPs voted against. The text has been approved in the Knesset, but three more votes are needed for it to come into effect, which could give the two heads of the executive time to work out their differences. >> Read more also: Accused of corruption, Benjamin Netanyahu withdraws his request for immunity from the Knesset, accusing the current government of national unity of being the “worst in Israel’s history” and of failing to manage the crisis of the coronavirus, had asked the opposition leader Yaïr Lapid From Wednesday’s vote for the dissolution of the Knesset, the Parliament, already on Tuesday evening Benny Gantz announced its support for the motion that accuses Benjamin Netanyahu in particular of serving his interests rather than those of the country. However, Benny Gantz had asked Benjamin Netanyahu to get the government to vote “on the budget, so that the citizens of Israel do not go to the polls in March”. He then urged the Prime Minister to reach a compromise for the adoption of the budget for the year 2020. The country does not yet have a guideline for its public finances “. It is not time for elections, but for unity”, Benjamin Netanyahu said, minutes before Benny Gantz’s speech, saying that the political class had to unite in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, which in particular caused the explosion of unemployment in Israel. between the leaders of the center-left and the right on the budget are added the uncertainties linked to the alternation in the United States and the risk of Iranian reprisals after the assassination of the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The Jewish state and Western powers considered him the main contractor of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. >> See also: Murder of a nuclear physicist in Tehran: little room for maneuver for an Iranian response Parliament would have called new national elections 90 days later, the fourth in less than two years, after three polls that had put the troops of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former army chief Benny Gantz. After three ballots that did not allow either of them to gather the majority of the 120 deputies in the Knesset, they decided in the spring to form a government of unity and crisis in the middle of the coronavirus period. But in recent months the local press has reported numerous rifts between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz: Benny Gantz, 4th in the polls Wednesday’s vote is a preliminary vote. And a dissolution of the Chamber requires that the opposition draft be adopted at third reading. According to political commentators, in passing this motion to dissolve the Knesset, Benny Gantz is not necessarily trying to call an election, but to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to re-establish the coalition. The latest polls give Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud first place, ahead of Naftali Bennett’s radical right-wing Yamina (opposition) party, centrist Yaïr Lapid’s Yesh Atid Telem party and Benny Gantz’s Bleu-Blanc group. In the last three elections, these last two parties had joined forces in a coalition, but Benny Gantz had broken this pact to join Benjamin Netanyahu and thus end the longest political crisis in Israel’s history. The government agreement between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz provides for a division of ministries and a rotation for the office of Prime Minister which must fall to the former army chief in one year. Fourth in the polls, and confident in a year leading the government, Benny Gantz wouldn’t do well to call new elections according to the Israeli press. Aside from this opposition motion, if no consensus on budget adoption is reached by December 23, the Knesset will dissolve and new elections will be called in March 2021. By AFP and Reuters
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