Liberman postpones budget discussions as coalition totters
Regardless of the government’s latest issues, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the budget will finally be handed.


As the authorities coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman announced final night that he is suspending conversations on the 2023 budget. He advised Channel 12 News, “I spoke with the primary minister and we decided that for the second we are suspending the budget discussions in get to get structured. We are freezing the discussions as a liable govt, and we will finish the summer time 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 examining of the bill to increase the minimum amount wage to NIS 40 for each hour. “We agreed (to postpone the budget discussions) because the vote went against the Committee for Legislative Issues. Most people ought to be accountable in what they are accomplishing. I am absolutely sure that the budget will move later on and it will be a fantastic spending plan that is not populist.”

The defeat more than the minimal wage charges was just a single of a quantity of defeats inflicted on the federal government coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It commenced with the failure to go the law regulating the lawful condition for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Spiritual Affairs, because of to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who left the coalition two months in the past and voted versus the govt for the first time.

Revealed by Globes, Israel company news – en.globes.co.il – on June 9, 2022.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Image: Yossi Zamir