Benjamin Netanyahu's headache in negotiations with the coalition partners may be just the beginning for the prime minister-designate.
The grumbling of Likud members is well known, but now the "faction" of Dodi Amsalem, Israel Katz and David Bitan is being strengthened with the addition of MK Danny Danon, becoming four people.
Returning to the Knesset: Danny Danon from the Likud reacts to the results of the polls // Photo: Yoni Rickner
In the reality where the upcoming coalition has 64 mandates, four unruly votes can be a serious problem in Knesset votes and passing laws.
In recent days, MK David Bitan has often been interviewed and signaled to Netanyahu that he is going to be almost independent in the upcoming Knesset, but as long as he had a power of only three MKs the threat was not significant.
If, as it turns out, Danon joins the gang and they become four, Likud could find itself in trouble.
Often attacks the chairman of the Likud. Prime Minister-designate Netanyahu and MK Bitan (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In recent weeks, MK Nissim Vattori, Bitan's friend, was asked if he also joined the faction and denied it completely, as a result Bitan cut off contact with him and yesterday Vattori said on the Knesset channel: "David Bitan has not been talking to me for two weeks because I did not join his group in Likud.
But he's a warm man, I've known him for 40 years, and he'll get over it, I'll bring him kebabs I made and it'll be fine."
Bitten later addressed the matter and said that he was "not a little boy" and excused it by saying that he simply had not met Vattori for two weeks.
In Likud they estimate that Bitan, Amsalem and Katz's faction is stepping up in public to fight for a senior case for Israel Katz, since Bitan cannot serve as a minister and Amsalem has already said that if he is not Minister of Justice he will serve as a regular MK.
The new entrant.
MK Danny Danon, photo: Koko
Even yesterday, Bitan continued to attack the negotiations in Likud and said: "They did nonsense in the conduct of the negotiations, we should have said at the very beginning that the three senior cases remain with us and thus we would have avoided everything they are doing now, which is to look for how to compensate the partnership."
According to him, even if Likud has a large number of cases left, their quality is poor.
In addition, Bitan claims that most of the important committees except the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee are out of Likud's hands.
will not accept the court case.
MK Dodi Amsalem, photo: Dodi Vaaknin
A member of the internal opposition.
MK Israel Katz, photo: Gideon Markovich
Bitan was interviewed by Gali Israel and said: "It's not just problems with the establishment of the government, there will be problems afterwards as well. These things will cause a bad atmosphere, I'll tell you the truth? I don't know what will happen. I don't believe that this government will end its days. In the opposition, we bowed to every demand their".
Danny Danon responded to the words and said "I have been a friend of David Bitan for many years".
MK added that he will send a more extended response later, and it will be brought when it is received.
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