Following MK Jida Rinawi Zoabi's announcement of her intention to resign from the coalition, her party sources claim that Yair Golan, Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry and Meretz MK, is considering running for the party leadership if there are elections, thus replacing party chairman Nitzan Horowitz .
Golan in response: "Not dealing with it at the moment."
Earlier today, MK Jida Rinawi Zoabi of Meretz announced that she was resigning from the coalition following what she defines as "preferring the coalition leaders to preserve and strengthen its right-wing side." The meaning of her retirement - Bennett and Lapid lose another MK Members only, and its opponents have a majority in the Knesset.
Intends to retire: Jida Rinawi Zoabi, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In the past, Golan provoked a number of provocations, one of them when he called the settlers in the Chumash "subhuman" in an interview.
In addition, in 2015, during the Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day ceremony, Golan, who served as deputy chief of staff at the time, said: "90 years, and finding evidence of them here among us today."
The coalition leaders as well as Zoabi's party were very surprised by her announcement.
They said they heard about her from the media after she sent the letter in which she was retiring.
March chairwoman MK Nitzan Horowitz, who was criticized from home for the developments, traveled to her home in the Galilee landscape to persuade her to resign from the Knesset, but she told him she could not meet today.
The two will probably meet tomorrow.
In March, they claimed that the resignation was directed at Foreign Minister Lapid: "Zoabi's move is not directed against us. This is revenge on Yair Lapid following the difficulties in appointing her ambassador."
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