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Government pending: "Gantz should give proper consideration to health portfolio" Israel today

2020-04-29T21:27:00.399Z


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Litzman's waiver reopens the division • Likud awaits proposal: "Today's health in foreign status" • First: 11 High Court judges will discuss Netanyahu's term and agreement

  • Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yur Gnz

Independence Day is behind us, and the government train's work is back in full force. The focus of the efforts is to find a solution to the filing of the distribution of files, which was created following Minister Litzman's concession to the Ministry of Health. Above all, a senior warning on the right is hovering that any High Court intervention in the coalition agreement will drag the state into a fourth election.

While the Likud-Blue coalition agreement was signed, Litzman's concession to the Ministry of Health has reopened negotiations with the various parties. According to the agreement between Likud and Blue-White - if Litzman gives up the health portfolio, there is a possibility that the Health-file - which belongs to Netanyahu's bloc - will be transferred to White-Blue. However, the Likud is waiting to hear a white paintbrush what they are prepared to offer in exchange for receiving this case. 



"Blue and white want the health care portfolio, but the question is whether they can give proper value," explained a Likud official. "What is the good value? This is a good question. It may be that these days the health care portfolio is equivalent to the foreign portfolio, maybe also the economy portfolio and another portfolio." Small ", or a combination of some" small "files. No answer to that yet." The source admitted that "the file distribution puzzle was pretty closed and opened because of health."

Today: Voting in the plenum

It should be noted that Litzman's concession to the health portfolio also created open ends among the ultra-Orthodox parties. Some of the powers and issues that were in the Ministry of Housing have been transferred to other offices in recent years, and now Litzman wants to return them to the Ministry of Housing. Among the offices holding the same powers are the Ministry of the Interior, which is expected to receive Shas chairman Arie Deri. Following this, Likud sent Torah Jewry and Shas "to get along" in coordination with the Prime Minister's Office. The direction is to return the situation to that which was in early 2015, before certain powers were transferred between the offices.

At the same time, the Knesset plenary will convene for a special meeting today to first approve the Rotation Government bill, which includes amendments to the Basic Law: The Government. Immediately after, apparently this afternoon, the special parliamentary committee dealing with the law will convene to begin preparations for a second and third reading.

The committee chairman, MK Eitan Ginsburg (blue and white), told Israel Today: "The committee must act swiftly to complete the legislative process, because under the law if it is not approved until next Thursday, May 7, at midnight , The Knesset will be scattered and go to the fourth election. "

Eyes for High Court Decision

In the meantime, the High Court announced that it will discuss an expanded panel of 11 judges in the seven petitions filed against Netanyahu by the government and against the coalition agreement signed between Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz.

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayes decided that the petitions will be heard this Sunday at 10:00, where all parties' arguments will be heard in a predetermined order as to the composition of the government by Netanyahu. On Monday at that time, the parties' arguments regarding the coalition agreement will be heard. The court also issued a probation order for all the petitions and stated that it would use the answers submitted as the main arguments of the respondents.

Likud members continue to emphasize that the greatest threat to the establishment of a government is the High Court. According to Likud officials, "Every High Court intervention will send us to the elections. There is a package deal with blue and white, which includes a lot of balances. Everything is very delicate, so all Intervention will collapse all outline. If the High Court does not intervene, a government will be formed. "

It should be noted that the hearing will be the first time the court will discuss the widespread issue involving intervention in the voter’s decision. Due to the Corona crisis, the judges are considering relaying the hearing live, as has happened in a limited number of hearings. Alongside the President, Chaim Meltzer and Judges Neal Handel, Uzi Fogelman, Yitzhak Amit, Noam Solberg, Dafna Barak-Erez, Manny Mazuz, Anat Baron, George Read and David Mintz, will discuss with the chair.

Source: israelhayom

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