"The largest, ugliest, and most unnecessary coalition in the history of the country wants the money of its citizens and distributes it to each other. This money is from people who worked really hard, got up early, went to bed late, paid taxes. This is not money from politicians. Knesset politicians are asked to remove their hands From the money of the citizens of Israel, "this is how Yair Lapid opened his speech on the Knesset podium in 2020 when he presented the bill he submitted against the distribution of coalition funds.
Watch: When Lapid proposed a law against coalition funds // Photo: Knesset Channel
Lapid, then the opposition chairman and today the foreign minister and deputy prime minister, continued to harshly attack the coalition-funded distribution procedure: "It is always the time, and today it is especially right to put a bill against coalition funds on the Knesset table.
This morning alone, the coalition chairman asked for NIS 21 billion in coalition funds. People have nothing to eat. The Knesset dropped unemployment benefits for the self-employed.
This is always the time, and today it is especially right to put on the Knesset table a bill against coalition funds.
This morning alone, the coalition chairman asked for NIS 21 billion in coalition funds.
People have nothing to eat, the Knesset has dropped unemployment benefits for the self-employed, on every second store street it says "for rent", unemployment is at its peak. >>
- Yair Lapid🟠 (@yairlapid) August 19, 2020
Lapid added: "The government has completely failed to deal with the corona crisis, but one thing they know how to do - ask for money. They take money from Israeli citizens and give it to other politicians to buy quiet, to buy jobs, to buy the next corruption."
Vote in the Finance Committee on Coalition Finance, Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman / Noam Moskowitz
It should be noted that the proposal was submitted once again, also in 2018, so Lapid said: "I should have called this bill 'Hobby Money Bill', because what happens in this building every time you try to transfer budget or budgets is that you have to distribute money for hobbies to MKs. "It cannot continue in a reformed Knesset. It is not right, it is not healthy, it produces murky agreements and it corrupts our political system. It is a toxic mix of interests."