Just before the deadline for approving the budget - approaching the boiling point again • The Likud clarifies: there will be no choice but to postpone the schedules • Blue and white: "It is forbidden to continue dragging your feet"
Two and a half months before the deadline for approving the state budget, Blue and White and the Likud are already launching mutual threats.
A senior Likud official clarifies that there will be no choice but to postpone the schedules for budget approval.
On the other hand, in blue and white, they make it clear: "Time is pressing and the Likud is dragging its feet."
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According to the Hauser compromise that prevented the fall of the government in the summer, the government must approve the state budget by December 23rd.
The law that regulated the compromise did not say whether it was a technical approval of the 2020 budget or a substantive approval of the 2021. Budget. The ambiguity opens the door to the new conflict.
The process of approving a state budget, from the beginning of the discussions of the Ministry of Finance until final approval in the Knesset, lasts at least four months.
Finance Minister Israel Katz did announce that he would start preparing the budget.
However, due to the corona crisis, closure and holidays, work on the updated budget for 2021 has not yet begun, so there is not enough time left to complete the full process by December.
To solve the political problem, the government and the Knesset can approve the 2020 budget in December and wait with the approval of the 2021 budget until the end of March.
However, in blue and white they are already demanding the approval of the 2021. budget. "We have a clear coalition agreement that one of the first conditions for the formation of the government was the transfer of the state budget," says a senior official in blue and white.
"You can't keep dragging your feet."
The Minister of Strategic Affairs, Orit Farkash HaCohen, the budget leader on behalf of Blue and White, also addressed the issue yesterday: "We have reached a red line. The difference between a country with a budget or without a budget is whether the country is managed or not. ".
The Likud rejects the claims and says that blue and white is what prevents politics.
"The prime minister has brought in more successful state budgets than any other world leader. He is unmoved by the shameful attempt by blue and whites to extricate themselves from their collapse in the polls."
A senior figure in the political system added that the reciprocal attacks between the two parties increase the distrust between Netanyahu and Gantz.
"This is a dangerous dynamic that could lead to the fall of the government," he said.
"They are in a panic"
White Brush reported that "Netanyahu's attack on blue and white expresses a deep and very worrying panic about the ability to withstand the pressure of the polls."