Lieberman's Plan to Dismantle Likud From Within Revealed
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
Yisrael Beiteinu has devised a plan to dismantle the Likud party from within if the opposition bloc does not win 61 seats in the upcoming elections. The strategy focuses on preventing Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government through parliamentary maneuvers and proposed legislation. The party aims to attract Likud members to an alternative coalition, emphasizing that Lieberman will not join a coalition with Arab or ultra-Orthodox parties.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Yisrael Beiteinu plans to dismantle Likud from within by blocking Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government.
- The strategy involves gaining control of Knesset leadership and advancing legislation to prevent indicted individuals from forming a government.
- The party aims to attract defectors from Likud to form an alternative coalition, even without a 61-seat majority.
- Avigdor Lieberman will not join a coalition with Arab or ultra-Orthodox parties.
- The plan is contingent on the opposition bloc not securing 61 seats in the upcoming elections.
Yisrael Beiteinu has developed a strategy to potentially dismantle the Likud party from within, should the opposition bloc fail to secure 61 seats in the upcoming elections. The core of the plan involves preventing Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government, with the aim of encouraging defections from Likud to an alternative coalition.
According to the plan, Yisrael Beiteinu believes that blocking Netanyahu from receiving the mandate to form a government is crucial. They estimate that as long as Netanyahu leads Likud and has the possibility of forming a government, it will be difficult to split the party and break up the right-wing bloc. Therefore, the party seeks to create a political reality where Netanyahu cannot be tasked with forming a government, even if Likud emerges as the largest party.
The first step in this strategy is to gain control of key parliamentary bodies. Yisrael Beiteinu intends to push for the replacement of the Knesset Speaker with a candidate agreed upon by the opposition parties. This move would grant the opposition significant influence over the parliamentary agenda, committee work, and legislative processes.
Following this, the party plans to advance legislation that would prohibit the President from assigning the mandate to form a government to an individual who has been indicted. This proposed law is directly aimed at Netanyahu, seeking to prevent him from forming the next government through legislative changes.
Yisrael Beiteinu estimates that if Netanyahu is blocked from forming a government, conditions will be ripe for the Likud bloc to fracture internally. At this stage, the party intends to work on attracting members from Likud to form an alternative coalition, even without a clear 61-seat majority for the opposition bloc in the election results. The party emphasizes that Lieberman will not sit in a coalition with Arab parties or ultra-Orthodox parties, meaning the plan relies on garnering support from within Likud itself through political and legislative maneuvers to shift the balance of power post-election.
