Amar Bar Lev: Trying to collect 61 signatures for Yuli Edelstein

The Knesset Member from Labor Bridge said at an event in the culture that "it takes a lot of courage to realize that this may be the only option that will prevent third elections." Likud officials say Edelstein planned to collect the signatures himself to get the government-mandated mandate himself, but Edelstein denied it

Amar Bar Lev: Trying to collect 61 signatures for Yuli Edelstein

Knesset Member Amar Bar Lev (Labor Bridge) said this morning that he is "trying to advance a move and bring in 61 signatures that will recommend President Reuben Rivlin to impose Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to form the government." Aviv added that "You have to be told by the Speaker of the Knesset, everything is on your mind. Because he is the Speaker of the Knesset, I do not enter the internal struggle for Likud. I sincerely hope and believe that if the President casts it on him, he will make the right choice. It takes a lot of courage in the various parties to understand that this is perhaps the only option that will prevent us from making the third election - and give up a lot of ego. "

Bar Lev's call to sign Edelstein for the president's mandate comes in the backdrop of the efforts that Edelstein has led over the past two weeks to the establishment of a unity government and talks that have been held with all faction leaders in an attempt to prevent elections. At the same time, Likud officials say Edelstein planned to collect himself 61 signatures - of Israel our home, blue and white, and a certain number of Hakim Likud - to get the president the mandate to assemble the government himself. Edelstein denied that.

Netanyahu was asked at a briefing in Lisbon on Thursday if he knew that Edelstein had planned such a move and responded in the negative.

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"You have to tell him you are the Speaker of the Knesset, everything is on your mind." Bar Lev (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

Amar Bar Lev and Joint Committee for Constitution and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in discussion of the Regulations Bill, Knesset. November 2016 (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

MK Ofer Shelah (blue and white) said that "Netanyahu is the sole culprit when we are on the verge of another election," at a cultural event in Be'er Sheva, Shelah said that "we have made every effort to set up a government and not be dragged into the elections. But from day one, Netanyahu aimed exclusively for more elections. "According to Shelach," Likud's negotiating team did not move from its three demands: Netanyahu's first rotation, a 55-member immunity block and zero changes in things that are important to us, especially protecting the rule of law. And religious and state affairs. It was not a negotiation but a game on time and accusations.

Shelah rejected Netanyahu's political reasoning for being in a rotating head, saying he was "empty of it." He said, "There will be no annexation of the Jordan Valley because of Jordan's opposition, and there will be no defense alliance with the United States because it is a bad thing that all professional systems oppose. There has not yet been a prime minister who used such cheapness for political and security reasons for his political needs."

"There was no prime minister who used such cheapness for political and security reasons." Send, today (Photo: Beer Sheva)

MK Ofer Shelah (Blue and White) at a cultural event in Beer Sheva. December 07, 2019. (Photo: Courtesy of Beer Sheva Municipality, official website)