But Ra’am refused to budge.
In a strange sight, Ra’am’s leader Mansour Abbas used his allotted minutes at the Knesset podium to publicly ask Haskel to withdraw her bill for two weeks so the party could study the proposal in a spirit of “cooperation,” he assured.
Haskel was forced to agree not behind closed doors, quietly, as might be expected between coalition partners, but at the Knesset podium in front of television cameras and snickering opposition lawmakers. Advertisement
Then came the amendments to the Basic Law: Government that would set down the final legal structure for the new government, closing some gaps from last year’s legislation and setting the new bifurcated parity government on a firmer footing. It was only when the bill reached the plenum that coalition leaders noticed they didn’t have a majority. MKs were simply missing.
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