Knesset panel wants to remove Hazan from post as deputy Knesset speaker

18 January 2016, 2:55 pm

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The Knesset House Committee, chaired by Likud MK David Bitan, is promoting a bill that would facilitate a process that may end in removing Deputy Knesset Chairman MK Oren Hazan (Likud) from his position, Ynet reports.

Instead of the 90 Yay votes by MKs needed until now, the committee wants to be able to kick Hazan out of the post with a mere 70 Yay votes.

In addition, Bitan wants the faction, from which the deputy speaker hails, to have a say on his removal from office, including the right to promote such a move. The Knesset Committee will today hold a first discussion on the proposal, which would be an amendment to a basic law.