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Monday, December 12, 2022
Likely incoming coalition files formal request to replace Knesset speaker
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Composite photo, left to right: Likud MK Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum hall on June 9, 2021; outgoing Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy during a plenum session on November 21, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The parties of the expected incoming coalition submit a formal request to replace the Knesset speaker with Likud MK Yariv Levin.
The letter to current speaker Mickey Levy of the outgoing coalition is signed by all the party chiefs of the allied right-religious parties.
Levin is set to become temporary speaker to enable the passage of several contentious laws before the government is sworn in, after which he will likely become justice minister.
The vote to replace the speaker was planned for today but has been pushed off to tomorrow.
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