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Netanyahu absent from vote on cannabis law, Likud criticized: "obliges us to come - and does not come"
Likud sources claim that they wanted freedom of vote but were refused due to opposition discipline.
After the party's senior officials were absent and the law was passed, MKs in the faction expressed their displeasure: "A sure model for the beginning of the disintegration of the opposition."
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Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 16:45 Updated: 17:00
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In the video: The bill to regulate medical cannabis passed a preliminary reading (Photo: Knesset Channel)
Criticism of the Likud following the mass absence of MKs from the Knesset vote today (Wednesday) on the medical cannabis law, and in particular the absence of party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Likud officials told Walla! This morning some MKs asked for freedom of vote in the law, but the faction obliged all its members to come and it was explained to them that there is no freedom of vote because of the ultra-Orthodox factions' demand to oppose
. In the end, RAAM did vote in favor, and at least a third of the faction members were absent from the vote, although no change was reported regarding opposition discipline.
"There was a decision that there is no freedom of voting and voting against," said a Likud MK. "It is a sure model for the beginning of the disintegration of the opposition." Netanyahu's aides said in response that he had exceptionally offset a constraint in his positions as opposition leader, and was therefore absent from the vote.
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The Knesset approved in a preliminary reading the law that will regulate the production and distribution of medical cannabis
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Must the faction members come - and absent.
Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The many Likud MKs who were absent from the vote preferred not to vote against a law that benefits patients in need of medical cannabis, after realizing that the law has a majority anyway.
MK David Bitan was furious at the back of the plenum over the conduct and loosening.
Among the missing MKs were the party's chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yuli Edelstein, Amir Ohana, Ofir Akunis, Nir Barkat, Gila Gamliel, Galit Distel-Atbrian, Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel Katz, Orly Levy-Abaxis and Kati Sheetrit. Members of RAAM voted in favor or were absent from the vote.
MK Amichai Shikli, the right-winger, also voted in favor.
MKs from the coalition celebrate the approval of the law, today (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
The coalition today approved MK Sharan Hashakel's bill (New Hope) in a preliminary reading, with a majority of 54 MKs voting in favor, compared to 42 against.
Following agreements with the Ministry of Health, the bill will not be advanced beyond a preliminary reading without further discussion in the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, as the Ministry of Health is interested in regulating the issue in regulations, and not in legislation.
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