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The coalition crisis: Minister Katz's new proposal for blue and white to approve the budget

The Minister of Finance presented a solution to the blue and white ministers, according to which an annual budget will be approved by the government and on first reading in the Knesset. At the same time, Hauser's law will advance the postponement of the November budget approval by three readings. "That way it will be possible to start moving the wheel and advance the budget." The dispute between Ganz and Netanyahu will be decided later

• Israel Katz
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Bnei Gantz
• State budget

Yaki Adamkar

Tonight (Monday), Finance Minister Israel Katz of the Likud spoke with Ministers Gabi Ashkenazi and Avi Nissenkorn on a white brush, and offered them a new solution to the budget crisis between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Bnei Gantz. According to the proposal, the details of which reached Walla! NEWS, An annual budget will be approved by the government and in the first reading in the Knesset, and at the same time MK Zvi Hauser (Derech Eretz)

will advance the law to postpone the approval of the budget for November with three readings. Katz explained in talks with the two Even before the proposal, the final decision on whether to advance an annual or biennial budget will be made before the budget is approved in the second and third readings, in accordance with a later agreement between Netanyahu and Gantz.

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Only two weeks remain until the deadline for the transfer of the state budget, and if Netanyahu and Gantz do not reach an agreement on the budget - the Knesset is expected to dissolve without a vote towards the end of August.

According to Netanyahu, a limited budget for 2020 should be transferred, and only then should a budget be transferred for next year. Ganz, on the other hand, opposes the demand to split the budgets in two, and demands that one budget be transferred for the remainder of the current year and next year - as agreed in the coalition agreement. According to him, the transfer of the budget as stipulated in the agreement is expected to stabilize the government and allow the corona crisis to continue to be managed.

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Netanyahu announced yesterday that he was ready to support MK Hauser's budget deferral law in the first reading, and Gantz in response issued an ultimatum to him at noon that the law should be passed in three readings within a day. The ultimatum reiterated its demand for a one-year budget, saying it should be done immediately.

"Anyone who loves the State of Israel is not taking it to the polls at this time," Ganz said at a blue-and-white faction meeting. "Tonight, and within a hundred days, approve the state budget." Remove the threat of elections from the public agenda, and we will allow the public instead of panic - certainty, "he said." Within a day we can complete the process. The government will approve it tonight, the Knesset of Israel will pass it within 24 hours, and so without tricks and sticks - the proposal will be approved in the second and third readings. "

Netanyahu, for his part, refused to commit to a postponement. Ready, tailored to Corona, exactly what the citizens of Israel need. "