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Monday, November 28, 2022
Ben Gvir calls on Smotrich to stop stalling over vote for new Knesset speaker
Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
Without using his name, Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir calls on Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich to join forces with the other prospective coalition members and vote for a new Knesset speaker.
“It’s a serious and severe mistake” to not immediately appoint a new Knesset speaker, which would help the incoming coalition set the agenda for upcoming legislative sessions, Ben Gvir says.
Smotrich has reportedly been holding out as a negotiating tactic with bloc leader Likud.
“Terror doesn’t wait for us…anarchists are working in the field, there’s no time, we have to form a government,” Ben Gvir adds, using “anarchists” to refer to left-wing activists.
The Times of Israel Community.