The last day of the Knesset?
The Knesset committee will discuss this morning (Monday) the bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset, when at 16:00 the proposal will go up for a second and third reading.
Constitution Committee // Credit: Knesset Channel
It will be recalled that the coalition sought to advance the plenary sessions to 13:00, but in the meantime it is facing difficulties with Knesset committee chairman Nir Orbach, who wants to delay the dissolution of the Knesset in order to exhaust the opposition's contacts to form an alternative right-wing government.
There are also some key scenarios for which the coalition and the opposition are preparing:
Dissemination of the day -
the opposition and the coalition will reach agreements on the package of laws in the negotiations, Orbach will approve the law dissolving the Knesset and prepare it for the first reading this morning.
It will then agree to convene the committee to prepare it for a second and third reading, and the Knesset will disperse by tomorrow morning.
Wants to delay the dissolution of the Knesset.
MK Nir Orbach, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Will promote dispersal?
Chairman of the Constitution Committee Gilad Karib, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Withdrawal of time -
The coalition will try to bypass Orbach and promote the law dissolving the Knesset through the Constitution Committee headed by Gilad Karib of the Labor Party.
If the coalition bypasses Orbach, the opposition will use all the parliamentary tools at its disposal - including a filibuster in the Constitution Committee and the plenum and the submission of thousands of reservations - to delay the debate.
In addition, the Knesset committee headed by Auerbach can prevent the coalition from activating Article 98, which will shorten the order of the debate, so that the opposition can spend hours debating the dissolution of the Knesset so that it will only pass finally over the weekend.
Alternative government -
The scenario that Lapid is very afraid of is that Netanyahu will delay the dissolution of the Knesset and will finally succeed in forming an alternative government in the current Knesset, similar to what was in "Mofaz Night," but the chances are slim.
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