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Israeli government ahead of new elections? Important deadline expires in a few hours - Job's survey for Netanyahu

2020-12-22T15:55:38.542Z


Only seven months after its formation, the government in Israel is heading for its end. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against his coalition partner.


Only seven months after its formation, the government in Israel is heading for its end.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against his coalition partner.

  • The relationship between Israeli Prime Minister

    Netanyahu

    and his coalition partner

    Gantz

    is marked by

    distrust

    and

    public accusations

    .

  • The government alliance has existed since April, so it

    came about in the

    middle of the

    Corona crisis

    *.

  • Now the government could

    tear

    a crucial

    deadline

    .

Tel Aviv - early elections in Israel?

You become more likely.

The proposal to

postpone

budget planning for 2021

and

2021

to December 31 and January 5, respectively, has been postponed by Parliament - with 49 votes to 47.

Since joining the coalition in April, a conflict has been simmering between Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu *

and his coalition partner, Defense Minister

Benny Gantz

, who, according to the original agreements, was to move to the top of the government at the end of November.

The

deadline

for an agreement on a budget for the current year

expires

on Wednesday night

.

If this does not happen,

new elections

must be

scheduled

in March

.

It would be the fourth Knesset election in two years.

Gantz recently advocated adopting a double budget for 2020 and 2021, while Netanyahu only wanted to vote on the current budget.

New elections in Israel?

Gantz announces to Netanyahu - "Hold your head high"

Netanyahu accused Gantz of not keeping previous promises and wanting to drag Israel

into

"unnecessary elections"

during the

corona pandemic *

.

Gantz said his

center-left party, Blue and White,

will

"hold its head high"

in the polls.

According to

polls

, Netanyahu has to expect that a significant number of Likud voters will be lost to the new right-wing challenger

Gideon Saar

in new elections

.

(AFP / dpa / frs)

It was not until early December that a majority of MPs in Jerusalem voted in a preliminary vote for a law to

dissolve the Knesset

.

Representatives of the center-left Blue White party voted with the opposition.

For the final dissolution of the Knesset, however,

three more readings

of the law initiated by the opposition

would be

necessary.

Science Minister

Izhar Schai

von Blau-Weiß told the army broadcaster that efforts were being made to form an

alternative government

.

"A new election is not necessary if you can replace this government with another," he said.

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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