The Interior Committee, headed by MK Yaakov, approved the order on Monday to postpone the local elections to February 27. Thirteen MKs voted in favor. MK Yosef Atauna (Hadash-Ta'al) objected and MK Walid Taha (Ra'am) abstained. The order will be put to a vote today in the Knesset plenum and will be finally approved.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the issue of postponing local elections at a press conference yesterday. "It was advisable not to hold elections in wartime, so we postponed it by several months," he explained. "Either you find a way to postpone them altogether, which is legislatively difficult, or there are two dates – the end of January or the end of February. I believe that the decision will be to postpone the date to the end of February, and that will also be my recommendation."
Minister of the Interior, Moshe Arbel, photo: Haim Goldberg/Flash90
"We asked the army to estimate how many people cannot participate in the elections and it turns out that the number is close to 700, there is a reserve duty and this figure is expected to drop significantly."
At a cabinet meeting last week, the deputy chief of staff presented data on reservists running in local elections, and as a result, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel changed his position and said that "there is no choice but to postpone the elections to February."
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