Likud rejects budget ultimatum • Finance Minister Katz: "Handel and Hauser's law that prevented elections in August is stupid and ridiculous"
MK Qarai. "Let them retract their impractical statements"
Photography:
Oren Ben Hakon - Archive
The never-ending controversy over the budget issue continues - and the tones between the Likud and blue and white are rising.
Likud Finance Committee member Dr. Shlomo Krei responded yesterday (Tuesday) to Blue and White's ultimatum to move the state budget to the end of the month, saying: "Either blue and white will fold or we will go to the polls."
According to Qarai, "I submitted a bill with a unique outline for the election year, in which it will be possible to submit a unified budget for the election year and the following year and approve the budget until March next year and come to a savior. Now it is up to them to retract their impractical declarations or take the State of Israel. For the election. "
From Zvi Hauser's Twitter page // Archive
Finance Minister Israel Katz also addressed the issue yesterday and said in an interview with Network B that it is not possible to move the budget for 2021 to December. According to Katz, "Handel and Hauser's law that prevented elections in August is one of the stupidest, it is ridiculous, it is written that until "December 23 should be a budget for 2020, it's silly to move a budget for a few days. I am working to bring forward the 2020 budget."
He said, "We are working on the 2021 budget. I have had several meetings with the Ministry of Finance management working on it. We thought we would end up with a softer budget and set more ambitious goals, but the corona makes its own calculations and goes to 2021, the budget principles must be adjusted and filled. The Arrangements Law will be dealt with, meaning that it can be completed in the Knesset by mid-February. This is the fastest schedule.
The finance minister even sent a sting to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and said, "I heard Ashkenazi, another economics expert, I did not hear that he has a record in citizenship in the economic field, on the contrary. He will handle foreign affairs. He worked in the economic field in citizenship and we saw dire results. I brought a revolution. "He headed companies and to this day things are being tested. There has been an economic failure. Everyone knows these things, he has not excelled in the field of economics."
