Zionist Union submits bill to disperse Knesset

The Zionist Union submits a bill calling to disperse the 20th Knesset.

The bill’s accompanying remarks note that “the 34th government of the State of Israel leans on a casual and technical majority of 61 coalition MKs against 59 opposition MKs.”

According to the authors of the bill, the conditions under which the government is being established are based on coalition agreements that reflect political benefits promised at the last minute. The accords “embody significant harm to the value of a political regime,” NRG quotes the bill as saying.

“Thus public money is funneled clandestinely to maintain a narrow and ineffective government that will prevent reforms or any kind of change during days when the State of Israel and Israeli society are facing great challenges. In light of this, it is proposed to disperse the 20th Knesset and let the people reelect its representatives,” continues the bill.

During a Zionist Union faction meeting, leader Isaac Herzog says that “Netanyahu is trying to establish a 61-MK government. I don’t intend to help him establish a government of 61, but to replace him. If not in this Knesset, then in another round of elections.”