Coalition chair and head of the Likud Knesset faction Miki Zohar said he would “declare Shaha-Biton as a defector,” a quasi-legal term for an MK who leaves the party they were elected to represent and is therefore prevented from running on another’s list in the upcoming election.
“Her decision to run on another list revokes her right to represent the Likud faction in the Knesset,” he tweeted.
Shasha-Biton entered the Knesset in 2015 as a member of former finance minister Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party, which was absorbed into Likud last year.
Following the formation of a new government in May, Shasha-Biton was named chairwoman of the Knesset’s Coronavirus Committee, where she earned popular acclaim for overturning and criticizing a number of the government’s coronavirus restrictions.