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The Knesset will vote on the law prohibiting a criminal defendant from forming a government
The bill initiated by Yesh Atid is expected to be rejected after Blue and White announced that they would be absent from the vote. Lapid: "Whoever is in charge of the economy and security of an entire country does not deal with such things." Netanyahu: "We are witnessing another disgusting chapter in an endless treatise on the part of those who uplift democracy"
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Yaki Adamkar
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 12:39 Updated: 12:49Live broadcast from the Knesset
The Knesset will vote today (Wednesday) in a preliminary reading on the bill according to which a criminal defendant will not be able to form a government. The bill initiated by Yesh Atid is expected to be rejected after Blue and White announced that they would be absent from the vote.
Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid told Knesset members at the beginning of the debate that if "you want to understand why this proposal is essential, read Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit."
According to Lapid, "The person is freaking out before our eyes. Whoever is in charge of the economy and security of an entire country does not deal with such things. This proposal, written together with Ganz and Ashkenazi, was not intended to provoke. We are in the midst of the biggest health and economic crisis in the country." "Otherwise, he is not with us. The results are accordingly. It is impossible to manage such a crisis worse than he is managing it."
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Zohar and Lapid in the Knesset Plenum, today (Photo: Adina Wallman, Knesset Spokeswoman)The prime minister went to the plenum of the plenum to answer on behalf of the government and said that "precisely in the Knesset, in what is supposed to be the Hall of Israeli Democracy, we are witnessing another disgusting chapter in the unending mask of those who lift democracy by the throat and sword to decapitate democracy."
The Blue and White faction announced yesterday that it would not participate in the vote on the bill, saying that "our principled position on the issue has not changed and will not change, but at this time, it is merely an attempt to undermine the stability of the entire political system."
"In the midst of one of the most serious crises in the country's history, we choose to do everything we can to prevent elections that will bring economic disaster to the economy and tear Israeli society to pieces," they explained in blue and white. "Blue and White urges all factions in the House, including the Likud, to come to their senses and act together for the benefit of the citizens of the country, who do not want and do not need another political upheaval at their expense."
