Irrespective of the government’s existing issues, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the spending budget will eventually be passed.


As the government coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman declared previous night time that he is postponing discussions on the 2023 price range. He explained to Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the prime minister and we decided that for the second we are suspending the funds conversations in buy to get structured. We are freezing the discussions as a accountable govt, and we will end the summer season session and we will arrange ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition endured in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the 1st reading of the monthly bill to elevate the least wage to NIS 40 for every hour. “We agreed (to postpone the spending plan discussions) due to the fact the vote went versus the Committee for Legislative Issues. Everybody must be accountable in what they are performing. I am guaranteed that the finances will pass afterwards and it will be a excellent spending budget that is not populist.”

The defeat more than the minimal wage charges was just one of a quantity of defeats inflicted on the governing administration coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It started with the failure to go the regulation regulating the authorized predicament for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and continued with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Religious Affairs, thanks to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who remaining the coalition two months in the past and voted towards the federal government for the first time.

Published by Globes, Israel organization news – en.globes.co.il – on June 9, 2022.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photograph: Yossi Zamir