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.