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Yesh Atid calls on Knesset speaker to advance bill to dissolve Knesset tomorrow
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAriela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
Opposition party Yesh Atid says it has petitioned Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to convene a special Knesset presidium meeting today to fast-track a bill to vote on dissolving the Knesset tomorrow.
Opposition coordinator MK Meirav Ben Ari appealed to Ohana after the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party’s Degel HaTorah faction announced it would push to dissolve the Knesset and send Israel to early elections.
In a letter to Ohana, Ben Ari writes that “due to the change in circumstances and the support of Degel HaTorah members for dissolving the Knesset, I request that a Knesset presidium meeting be held by telephone already today to advance the bill to dissolve the 25th Knesset tomorrow in the plenum.”
Multiple opposition lawmakers submitted bills earlier today to dissolve the Knesset, including from Yair Golan’s Democrats party and Mansour Abbas’ Islamist party Ra’am.
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