Yesh Atid’s alternative government

Yesh Atid files a no-confidence motion, including a proposal for an alternative government made up of Yesh Atid MKs.

According to the proposal, party leader Yair Lapid would serve as prime minister and finance minister. Shai Piron, who served as education minister in the last government, would again serve in this position; Yael German, who had been health minister, would fill this role as well as becoming minister of environmental protection; MK Meir Cohen would serve as welfare and social services minister, as well as interior minister; MK Yaacov Peri would be foreign minister and in charge of the peace process; MK Ofer Shelach would be defense minister; MK Haim Jelin would serve as agriculture minister and minister for the development of the Negev and Galilee. Karin Elharar, Yoel Razbozov, Aliza Lavie and Mickey Levi would also receive ministerial positions.

A new law – initiated in the last government by Lapid and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman – mandates that any party filing a no-confidence motion must propose an alternative government.

One commentator on Facebook wrote “the new law makes no-confidence motions even more of a joke than they were.”