“It looked like mission impossible,” he said in an interview. He noted that a faction like his with roots in socialism had managed to compromise with others that support a free-market economy.
“It’s kind of a summary of the differing wills of this government,” Nachman Shai, the minister of diaspora affairs from the Labor party, said of the agreement on a budget and its approval. That prospect, experts said, appears unlikely because the opposition, made up of right-wing, ultra-Orthodox and leftist Arab factions, is as ideologically divided as the government itself. To do so would require a no-confidence vote backed by a majority of 61 lawmakers who all agreed on a replacement prime minister and government. Now that the government has passed the budget milestone, it will be far harder for the opposition to topple it. 14, that would have led to the automatic dissolution of the legislature and new elections within three months, which was the goal of an opposition faction led by Mr. And if the Knesset did not pass a budget by Nov. The 2021 budget was approved after a marathon debate that included a four-hour speech by a filibustering member of the opposition. Voting on a budget for 2022 was expected to conclude late Thursday or on Friday. The vote on the annual budget for what is left of 2021 passed by 61 to 59 in the 120-seat Knesset, or Parliament. “The reason it does is Netanyahu, who is still around and ahead in the polls.” “It’s a miracle that it stays together,” Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said of the coalition. So far, that common interest has staved off internal battles as the coalition partners focused on approving a budget. Bennett’s predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, out of office. The governing coalition, made up of right-wing, centrist and left-wing political factions as well as a small Arab Islamist party, has been bound together mostly by its desire to keep Mr. JERUSALEM - Israel’s Parliament narrowly approved a state budget on Thursday, the country’s first in more than three years, removing an imminent threat to the survival of the government that could bring some political stability after a chaotic stretch of four elections within two years.īut the razor-thin majority eked out by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition of eight parties with clashing ideologies and disparate agendas raised questions about whether the government could last out its four-year term and end Israel’s prolonged political morass.
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