"Everyone who enters the political system wants to be prime minister," the finance minister declared in an interview with Israel This Week.
Referring to the prime minister with seven seats, he said: "Once upon a time I could not believe ... Bennett proved that anything is possible." ".
In 2020, the 35th Israeli government headed by Netanyahu was formed, while inventing a political invention that turned out to be a constitutional failure.
The failure reflected in all its essence and clauses a complete and deep distrust between the components of the government.
Privacy has given equal weight to decision-making, regardless of the relative strength of the coalition partnership.
The prime minister's authority over all ministers was abolished. A new police entity, an alternate prime minister, was formed alongside the prime minister, as part of a two-headed constitutional monster.
The ministers and MKs were divided in advance as affiliated to the prime minister or his successor. Thus, for example, the question of who would vote for early dismissal of the Knesset became critical. The election.
If the Knesset's MKs vote for it, the prime minister will remain in office during the election period.
We thought it was a temporary invention, and we wanted to believe that the instability reflected in frequent election campaigns was what led to an invention that would pass from the world after the system stabilized.
It turned out, however, that no invention, however distorted, can overcome a politics of distrust.
The parasitic invention was to no avail, and within a year we went to a fourth election.
Added to the regime failure a year ago was a cultural failure, which brought political blackmail to a climax.
Against the background of voices of change, healing, unification and unity, it became clear that the Mishnahs, the Healers, the Mothers and the Unifiers left the constitutional-political failure intact.
Moreover, if in the previous government the prime minister and his successor came from the great political forces in the system - now that too has crashed.
Added to the regime failure was the cultural failure of blackmail, with the fifth-largest party leader blackmailing the prime minister.
Even with regard to the coalition that was formed, this is the third largest party, with next to it in the coalition were two other parties of the same size of seven seats.
Meanwhile, following the retirement of two right-wing members from the coalition, the prime minister now heads the fifth-largest party in the coalition.
The constitutional-political failure, as Lieberman's words proved, is that it created a huge political temptation that was just waiting for the leapfrogging failure that Bennett brought to its climax.
The competition for prime minister will no longer be between the great forces in the system, but between three and even four players.
The regime failure may deepen further: why would a parity government be formed with only two prime ministers?
After all, the term of office can also be divided into three, with a prime minister and two alternate prime ministers.
It is time to set in the Basic Law a minimum threshold for the size of a party from which the prime minister can come, in the hope that the MKs will not change it once the political interest in it is created.
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