Report: Blue and White likely to cave on demand for two-year budget

9 July 2020, 8:13 pm

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Channel 13 reports that the Blue and White party is slated to cave on its demand for a two-year budget amid demands by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Finance Ministry to pass a one-year budget amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Under the coalition deal between Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Blue and White, the parties agreed to pass a two-year budget. Netanyahu, however, is now seeking a one-year budget amid the coronavirus pandemic, potentially allowing him to trigger new elections around next year’s budget negotiations and bypassing a power-sharing deal with Gantz. The Blue and White leader has insisted his refusal to go with a one-year budget has nothing to do with that scenario.