Netanyahu has not yet said a word, but the political system is already preparing for the tsunami of the day after

Senior Likud members, most of whom have already buried their aspirations for leadership, do not want to miss the opportunity, and have already started the race for studios.

The coalition is mapping the scenarios of the alternative government that could overthrow them.

A plea deal is an earthquake for the Likud, but the aftershocks will be felt in the government and on the entire right

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16/01/2022

Sunday, January 16, 2022, 8:00 p.m.

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Following the contacts for a plea deal with Netanyahu: Protesters protest in front of Mandelblit's house (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

It has been four days since Ben Caspit revealed the contacts of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to a plea deal, and there is a resounding gap between the great noise in the political system and the voice coming out of Netanyahu's environment - silence.

Senior Likud officials began a race this weekend to mark territory in the race for chairman, and the coalition is already mapping the scenarios of the alternative government that could overthrow them. Netanyahu has not yet said a word, and his silence as a confession His

great tweeting supporters, shocked and confused by the deal he struck with the attorney general and none other than Aharon Barak, are still struggling to change the evil of the decree and persuade him to fight to the end and prove his innocence. But Israeli politics For the day after.

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Israeli politics is preparing for one of the biggest upheavals in its history (Photo: AP)

Avigdor Lieberman used the term "big bang" yesterday, and there are a selection of clichés and superlatives that illustrate the magnitude of the event: tsunami / earthquake / tectonic noise. The focus will be on the Likud, where after 16 consecutive years of the Netanyahu era they will elect the next chairman, but on the entire right and in the Bennett Lapid government there will be aftershocks, which can last for months

. For weeks, a temporary chairman will be elected, and within a maximum of three months, there will be primaries of the functionaries to elect a permanent chairman. There are so many question marks and really anything is possible.

For senior Likud figures, this is a moment they have been waiting for for years.

In a movement that does not oust a leader in power under a mega-popular leader who brands personal loyalty as a supreme value, most of them have buried their leadership aspirations and dreams and no one wants to miss the opportunity to break ahead.

Israel Katz, who always emphasized that he intends to run only after the Netanyahu era, appeared in the meeting room of the press yesterday and announced that he believes he will be elected interim chairman of the Likud Center and will already work to form an alternative government in this Knesset. It is inevitable that "he will run after Netanyahu retires. This brings the number of potential candidates for Netanyahu's legacy to eight: Katz, Nir Barkat, Yuli Edelstein, Avi Dichter, Tzachi Hanegbi, Miri Regev, Amir Ohana, and perhaps even Gilad Ardan - who will have to decide whether to leave. His role as ambassador to New York to run in the country's primaries.

Netanyahu may fire one of his associates as interim chairman (Photo: Walla !, Oren Ben Hakon)

"It is not inconceivable, according to Ohana, that this list will be joined later by other names, and it is also not inconceivable that Netanyahu will run one of his associates as interim chairman to remotely control the party during the transition period and prevent Katz from taking the reins, or seek the legal way to continue his term." R temporary until a permanent chairman is elected in the primaries. But it seems that the Likudniks are no longer really waiting for him, but are starting to prepare on the lines.

The top of the coalition also held political consultations and assessments over the weekend, leading to the possibility of losing the axis that united Meretz, the right and the PM into one government. , And bad news for left-wing parties, and especially for Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. Immediately throw in the trash the torch rotation.

Ganz is also a sought-after partner in the right-wing bloc, and even Lieberman did not outright reject a renewed partnership with the Likud yesterday.

Demonstrations against the plea deal in front of the spokesman's home (Photo: Reuven Castro)

This scenario, even if realized, will take time, during which the government is supposed to breathe, but it is not that it lacks problems, even regardless of the decisions of Netanyahu's life. The rising tensions between the right and a new hope for RAAM and Meretz have also paralyzed the coalition in the Knesset in recent weeks, and the possibility that the government will soon disintegrate will increase the atmosphere of suspicion and hostility, making it difficult for the parties to reach compromises. Is expected to become much more complex.

Bennett and Lapid's immediate response to reports of the plea deal was a decision to advance a commission of inquiry into the submarine affair.

Ganz put the proposal on the cabinet table as early as October, but so far it has been delayed by the cabinet secretariat due to Bennett's opposition.

On Friday morning, after it became clear that both Netanyahu and the prosecution were serious about the deal, Bennett gave Gantz and Lapid the green light to raise the proposal for a vote in the government, and they hurriedly solemnly announced that it would happen this coming Sunday.

At the weekend, the Rahm bureau decided not to put the proposal on the agenda, on the technical grounds that the ministers were not given enough time to review its details, but Gantz insists that it will definitely go up next week.

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