The election was not avoided tonight, but was only postponed due to Netanyahu's tactical considerations. • The prime minister has no intention of transferring power to Gantz on a tray of money.
It is now possible to set clocks: in a hundred days, if a very dramatic and unexpected event does not happen, the Knesset will disperse and we will go to the polls. Uncertainty about the future, the fragile economic situation, the problematic health situation, all of these have led Netanyahu to choose to postpone and avoid elections now.
PM Netanyahu on the political crisis: "I have decided to accept MK Hauser's compromise proposal" // Photo: Knesset Channel
It is not possible to know now what will happen in three months and if the situation improves by then, but it is possible to know what will happen next November if there are no elections - Bnei Gantz will replace Netanyahu as prime minister. What has until now been a kind of speculation, was confirmed tonight by Netanyahu at the press conference, who refrained from repeating the commitment to give Ganz the power under the agreement. "It depends only on blue and white," he said, dropping the ground on which Gantz stood when he signed the agreement with Netanyahu a hundred days ago.
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The budget in the first place served only as an excuse. The real demand is the appointments. And the big achievement is the additional exit point for the elections at the end of this coming November. Netanyahu will, in all likelihood, agree to further compromises and postponements as requested, provided that the point of departure is reserved for him before next November, the date of the rotation, which will probably never come.
When Netanyahu was asked whether Blue and White also adopted the compromise as he did, and after he replied that he had heard in the media that it was, the extent of the disconnect between the parties became clear. Ministers sitting together in the same subordination in the same government, with a combined leadership of a prime minister and an alternate prime minister, and hardly talking to each other. Also about the press conference and software heard blue and white heads only in the media.
Netanyahu's demand to change the method of appointments is a slight correction of the Likud's total surrender to legal issues in coalition agreements, and there is nothing more justified and necessary than that. Lesser of Two Evils. The current system, of locating and tendering committees, is fundamentally corrupt and perpetuates eternal bureaucratic rule, which is often very far removed from the positions of the majority of the public and its value preferences.
It is not clear to what extent the establishment of the committee as stated in the coalition agreement will indeed solve the problem, but less so it was nothing short of a scandal. Blue and white's insistence on this issue, having received their full lust on the issue of the justice system, will be the cause of action for another election.
When Netanyahu mentioned the case of the closure of Avi Nissenkorn's case, honesty advocates once again arose to claim that the prime minister distorted reality. But in truth, Netanyahu is accurate. It does not matter if the police decided to close the case two years ago, there is no doubt that the final closure by the prosecution was in May this year, on the eve of Nissenkorn's appointment as justice minister.
This was also stated by the Ministry of Justice in its official response. This is a closure designed to pave the way for his appointment without interruption. One can only speculate what would have happened to that case to the extent that Nissenkorn would have made voices that would have sounded jarring to the decision-makers at the top of the justice system. Maybe even then the case would have been closed. But the word "maybe" at the beginning of the sentence here tells the whole problematic.