The dream of Knesset members who aspire to receive ministerial positions, deputy ministers and / or inflated budgets for the benefit of their electorate, comes to life in days when the coalition is in great distress, paralyzed in the Knesset because it has no minimum majority to approve important laws or significant decisions.
This is the spring period, when the flowers beautify the fields in a variety of colors and nourish the eye in all their glory, and these are also the "flowering days" of those Knesset members, who following the decision of coalition leader Idit Silman (right) to join the Likud for such and such commitments Where they must act - in threats, sanctions or announcing the freezing of their membership in the coalition.
In the current Knesset, there were several examples of this.
Amichai Shikli (who was elected on the right-wing list) announced in May last year that he would oppose the rotation government of Bennett and Lapid, so he voted against the formation of the government and has since allowed himself to vote in the Knesset as he pleases.
Prime Minister Bennett has sought to declare him a retiring MK (i.e., not be able to be part of any faction in the current Knesset), and representatives of right-wing parties are already courting him.
The political power of Nir Orbach and Avir Kara (right) has also strengthened greatly since Silman's retirement, and the Likud is willing to embrace them warmly and give them almost anything they ask for, if they support a no - confidence motion in the government.
These two MKs, who have not yet had time to prove their parliamentary skills, are already walking around the Knesset like peacocks.
In the RAAM faction, the situation is similar. The Shura Council, the Supreme Religious Council, decided on Tuesday that RAAM will freeze its membership in the coalition, a decision that has no practical significance because the Knesset is on leave until May 9, and in fact it is an idle threat.
But beneath the surface some MKs from the party (including Chairman Mansour Abbas, Walid Taha and Mazen Ghanaim) hint that in the face of security tensions and events on the Temple Mount, their coalition membership and support for the government should be reconsidered if the status quo on the Temple Mount does not change.
Presumably in the end they will straighten out after Torch and Bennett promise them another significant benefits package.
Past precedents are not lacking.
For example, in the "stinking exercise" affair in 1990, when Shimon Peres was about to present his new government, two MKs from the ultra-Orthodox parties (Eliezer Mizrahi and Avraham Verdiger) who were about to support the formation of the government "disappeared" in exchange for promises made to them and pressure exerted on them. , And Peres' dream vanished.
In 1995, when the government headed by Yitzhak Rabin did not have a majority to approve the Oslo II agreement, he managed to "persuade" three MKs who resigned from the junction and formed the Yaud faction (Gonen Segev, Alex Goldfarb and Esther Salmovich) to join the coalition.
The payoff: the appointment of Segev (who is currently serving a prison sentence after being convicted of aggravated espionage for Iran) as energy minister and cabinet member, and Goldfarb's appointment as deputy housing minister.
In order to change the current situation, in which MKs allow themselves to act as they wish, the law must be changed and it must be clearly stated that elected officials must abide by their party's decision and not act as "independent on the ground" - except in exceptional cases.
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