Kulanu chairman Moshe Kahlon is reportedly set to have a senior lawmaker from his party, Yoav Gallant, fired from his position as housing and construction minister ahead of an expected defection to the Likud party ahead of the April elections.
Finance Minister Kahlon will meet with Gallant in Jerusalem later this evening where he will tell him of the decision to remove his cabinet portfolio, Hadashot news reports.
While the prime minister has the final say on cabinet appointments, coalition agreements state that he must cede to a request from a party head to fire one of their own ministers.
According to the report, however, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kahlon have agreed to appoint Gallant as a minister without portfolio in order for him to remain in the high level security cabinet. Without Gallant, who served in the IDF as a major general and was a candidate to be chief of staff, the cabinet responsible for ordering military operations would include no members with a ranking higher than a company commander.
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