Tensions within the “Likud” postpone the inauguration of the government

Internal rivalries in the Likud party, in the context of the distribution of ministerial portfolios, led to the postponement of the Israeli government inauguration until tomorrow (Sunday), after it was scheduled to do so last night, which led Knesset President Benny Gantz to withdraw his resignation from office. The postponement decision came in a joint statement on “Likud” and “Blue and White,” which was justified in allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, first, to finish distributing the bags to members of his party. Netanyahu had increased the portfolios to 34 to satisfy as many powers as possible, but he faced difficulties in appointing his party leaders in a number of positions, as some of them rejected the proposed portfolios on him, especially Tzachi Hanegbi and the former Shin Bet boss Avi Dichter

In a related context, the head of the “Jewish House”, Ravi Peretz, announced his desertion from the “right” coalition of right-wing parties to join the Netanyahu government, after attempts to reach an agreement between failed. Netanyahu and “right”. And the latter’s president, Naftali Bennett, lashed out at Likud and Netanyahu, describing it as the choice to “reject the right and take the opposite path and get rid of the right that forms the backbone of the right.” Commenting on that, sources in the “Likud” said that I showed a demand for a health bag, and when that was not possible, he chose to go to the opposition rather than join the government that “will take historic steps to establish sovereignty in the occupied Palestinian territories, “referring to the annexation of the occupied West Bank.
In this atmosphere, Avigdor Lieberman, president of Israel Our Home, described the government as a group of “free and opportunistic travelers looking for a seat and a chair”, and suggested that the opposition in the Knesset would be “effective” despite the diversity of the blocks that compose it.