Liberman postpones budget discussions as coalition totters
Despite the government’s current challenges, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the spending budget will finally be handed.


As the govt coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman announced last night that he is postponing conversations on the 2023 budget. He instructed Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the key minister and we made the decision that for the second we are postponing the spending plan discussions in buy to get arranged. We are freezing the conversations as a liable governing administration, and we will close the summer months session and we will arrange ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition experienced in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the to start with looking at of the bill to elevate the minimal wage to NIS 40 for each hour. “We agreed (to postpone the finances discussions) since the vote went versus the Committee for Legislative Matters. Every person will have to be accountable in what they are accomplishing. I am positive that the finances will go later and it will be a fantastic budget that is not populist.”

The defeat over the minimum amount wage expenditures was just one particular of a range of defeats inflicted on the governing administration coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It started with the failure to go the law regulating the legal situation for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Spiritual Affairs, owing to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who left the coalition two months ago and voted against the federal government for the initially time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Image: Yossi Zamir