The colorful Likud MK Oren Hazan has been ousted from his post as deputy Knesset speaker, a position he has been filling in name only, as the speaker, Yuli Edelstein, has for months been preventing him from presiding over plenum sessions.
According to a Channel 10 report, Hazan will be removed from the position to make way for a representative of the Yisrael Beytenu party, which won the spot when it recently joined the governing coalition.
A spokesperson for Hazan is quoted as decrying the decision and saying it’s “bizarre” that it was announced while Hazan was “on a plane and unavailable, as part of a public diplomacy tour in the Unite States on behalf of the state.”
The spokesperson names coalition chairman David Bitan as the man behind the “dirty, underhanded trick.”
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