Ministerial committee okays bill making it easier for MKs to split from parties

27 June 2021, 4:43 pm

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The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approves a bill that would make it easier for lawmakers to break off from a party and start a new Knesset faction, a proposal seemingly aimed at ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.

Under the existing law, at least a third of a faction’s members must want to split from the main faction for such a move to be permitted. Likud has 30 lawmakers in the current Knesset, requiring 11 MKs to break ranks.

The committee also okays a bill to allow a greater number of ministers to give up their Knesset seats to their fellow party members under the “Norwegian Law.”

Both proposals must pass three readings in the Knesset before becoming law.