Israel's New Knesset Opens With A Showdown Over Netanyahu's Speaker
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JERUSALEM. Benjamin Netanyahu lost the first round of the fight for government power. On Tuesday, Israel's Arab parties promised to help the democratic Jewish parties vote for a new speaker. The prime minister warns: Israel's doom is near.
Israel opens the 26th term of the Knesset, the parliament that emerged from the October 27 elections, on Tuesday, with a first political battle that goes beyond the constitution of the chamber: the replacement of its president. The parties opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu want to remove Amir Ohana, one of the prime minister's trusted men, and place Matan Kahana, from the Yashar party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, in his place. It is not a simple change of…
The Israeli opposition parties agreed, on Tuesday, to distribute leadership positions in the twenty-sixth Knesset, as part of their movements to form a unified political front and change the leadership of Parliament, in conjunction with their attempts to form a new Government and remove the ruling coalition.
The blockade of Jewish opposition collects 61 signatures, including with the support of the Arab parties, to dismiss the President of Parliament, Amir Ohana, most faithful of Netanyahu, and appoint Matan Kahana, Yashar's member. The passage allows control over the legislative agenda, but also the launch of initiatives so far stopped by the Israeli right.
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