Prime Minister's Associates to Israel Today: "Netanyahu Doesn't Want an Election, No Blue-Blue What to Fear"

• Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Benny Gantz

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  Mark Israel Salem, Oren Ben Hakun

The tension between the Likud and the blue is yet to subside, this time the reason is the continued mutual suspicion over the state budget issue.

The coalition agreement between the parties stipulated that the government pass a biennial budget. However, professionals including the head of the Treasury's Budget Department, the Accountant General and the Governor believe that in the current period with a global economic crisis and economic uncertainty - it is more appropriate to bring a one-year budget. Netanyahu supports their position, but blue-and-white people suspect that Netanyahu will take advantage of the controversy and inability to pass a budget to run for further elections, and thwart the possibility that Gantz will serve as acting prime minister.

PM Netanyahu's Statement on the New Restrictions on Gatherings // Photo: GPO

Netanyahu's concerns are being suppressed by white and blue. His associates told Israel Today: "It is true that we signed the coalition agreement on a biennial budget transfer, but it was written in March. To a biennial budget. "

Prime Minister's associates insist that "this is not a political exercise. White and blue have nothing to fear. The prime minister does not want elections. He understands the situation more than anyone else understands. There will be no elections. "They also said that the prime minister is planning to bring the budget soon," and that white and white will decide what they do. "

The denial of the intention to go to elections comes as a result of the unveiling of "Studio Six" on Channel 12, according to which Netanyahu threatened Gantz: "Next week, I will approve a one-year budget and, if not approved, we will go to the elections." Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn admitted in an interview to "Meet the Press" last night that the parties disagreed. "We have received no satisfactory explanation as to why not to implement the coalition agreement on a biennial budget."

Last week, Aryeh Deri and Moshe Gaffney tried to convince Gantz to agree to a one-year budget, without success.