From the Liveblog of
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Gantz tells Netanyahu: 2021 budget must pass soon
Defense Minister Benny Gantz sends a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he demands that the premier immediately instruct the Finance Ministry to begin preparing the 2021 state budget, and to allow its approval by December.
“Any action to thwart the approval of the budget means preferring personal considerations to the good of the Israeli people,” he says.
Gantz also demands that long-delayed cabinet regulations solidifying the power-sharing agreements between Likud and Blue and White be ratified, and that progress be made on stalled public appointments, including the appointment of a new state attorney and police chief.
“There is a great distance between the unity agreement we signed and where we are,” he says. “The government’s conduct does not allow proper, democratic and worthy governance.”
The Times of Israel Community.