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The Bennett-Lapid government has come to change.
Except in offices and jobs
The promises of the leaders of the change bloc to a different politics clashed with the test of reality.
Now, on the way to a revolution and Netanyahu's move, a large and cumbersome government is expected to emerge with an expanded Norwegian law, chair games, exclusion of the opposition from the Knesset's centers of power - and potential for paralysis
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Yair Lapid
Gideon Saar
Ayelet Shaked
Merav Michaeli
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Wednesday, June 09, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
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The Bennett-Lapid government that will be sworn in on Sunday tends to boast the title of change government.
Its two prime ministers, the designated prime minister Naftali Bennett and the designated deputy prime minister Yair Lapid, built their careers from promises of new politics and free of slogans like "something new is starting" and "we came to change".
Together, they are expected to bring about a revolution on a historic scale and end 12 consecutive years of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud in power, but on the way there - promises of different politics clashed with the test of reality,
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The promises of another politics clashed with the test of reality.
Lapid and Bennett (Photo: Yaniv Khalif, Yaniv Khalif)
An inflated and cumbersome government
The change government will include 28 ministers and another 6 deputy ministers, and a total of 34 officials who will benefit from a minister's salary and expensive bureaus.
This is less than the previous government of Netanyahu and Gantz, which was launched with 35 ministers and 2 deputies, but much more than Lapid's mythical election promise for a limited government of only 18 ministers.
Lapid even enacted an amendment to the Basic Law of the Government in the past, which limited the number of ministers, but Netanyahu himself took care to repeal it about two years ago and spared him and Bennett the embarrassment of amending the legislation.
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The size of the government, which consists of seven parties, is mainly a derivative of the political complexities that complicated its formation - the right demanded over-representation to overcome their numerical inferiority in the government, and then the center-left also increased appetite and demanded more ministers.
Although Lapid and Bennett managed to abolish some of the invented offices of the previous government, such as the Ministry of Community Advancement and the Digital Ministry, their government is still very large and with a variety of powers, which is likely to complicate and complicate decision-making.
Norwegian law is back, and hugely
The generous key minister who distributes 34 ministers and deputy ministers in the government on a narrow coalition of 61 MKs - sets a rather unusual status of minister / deputy minister for every 2 MKs. If you add another 9-8 officials and heads of Knesset committees, less than 20 remain MKs for current and Sisyphean parliamentary work in committees.
Gush Hashinui faction leaders' gathering, this week (Photo: courtesy of those photographed, Photo: Elad Gutman)
Therefore, the coalition intends to expand the Norwegian law, which allows ministers to resign from the Knesset and replace them with new MKs. This is an amendment to the Basic Law of the Knesset, designed to allow ministers to work full-time and improve parliamentary work. It is still unclear whether and how many parties in the bloc will change Norwegian law, but according to the proposed amendment - up to 26 ministers and deputy ministers could resign from their membership in the Knesset. They fell silent.
Crippling parity and triple rotation
Bennett and Lapid took exactly the same model of Netanyahu and Gantz to an exchange government and only made some improvements to it. They maintained the pragmatic structure of the government, giving equal power and veto power to each of them on every issue on the agenda, and even expanded it. The result is a rather complex decision-making mechanism in which neither party can actually make almost any decision without the consent of the other, even if the move has a majority of government ministers. The bloc of change believes that it will be possible to reach agreements on a wide range of economic and social issues, but privacy can also lead to delays in decision-making at best, and at worst - paralysis.
The rotation of Netanyahu and Gantz was also adopted and perfected by the new government.
In two and a quarter years, in August 2023, Lapid and Bennett are expected to make an exchange and with them a nice round of chair games will take place.
Lapid, who is starting as foreign minister, will become prime minister, and Bennett will move to the Interior Ministry - replacing Ayelet Shaked, who will replace Gideon Saar in the Ministry of Justice, and he will close the circle and become foreign minister instead of Lapid.
The chairman of the coalition, the chairman of the Knesset committee, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the chairman of the Constitution Committee will also be replaced, along with the rotation of Bennett and Lapid.
A nice round of chair games.
Saar and Shaked (Photo: Reuven Castro)
If you are not already confused, there is also a rotation in the committee for the appointment of judges: in the first half of the priesthood Shaked will be the representative of the government, and in the second half Merav Michaeli.
The exchange of heads challenges the ability of ministers to specialize and lead significant policies in the most important ministries, in a fragmented tenure of only two and a quarter years, and will force them, already in the first year, to quickly make big decisions and hope to leave a mark.
Forget the Knesset
The generous division of roles in the government has left the coalition benches in the Knesset almost orphaned by experienced and senior politicians who will lead and manage the parliamentary work.
On the right, Idit Silman, a young MK, is expected to be appointed to the position of coalition chairman, and it is still unclear who will be appointed chairman of the Knesset committee - an equally significant and decisive junction. The prime ministers decided yesterday that Zeev Elkin, one of the oldest and most experienced in the system, will serve as the liaison minister between the government and the Knesset in addition to his tenure as housing minister, and his main role will be to lead, Assist and back up the new incumbents.
Bennett and Lapid's emerging coalition preserves another tradition of the Likud and Netanyahu - the exclusion of the opposition from the centers of power and the committees in the Knesset.
Only three committees will be transferred to staff the opposition, at best, and of these - only the State Audit Committee has significant parliamentary value.
Likud members, who are returning to the Knesset after 12 years in power, will now have to share very few positions of committee heads and deputies.
The bloc of change hopes that in the name of the dramatic political upheaval and Netanyahu's move, the public will absorb the breaches of the clean promises they preached when they sat in opposition.
Netanyahu did the same, and the public got used to it.
Conclusion: Things seen from there are not seen from here, and also - it's all a matter of position.
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