Liberman postpones budget discussions as coalition totters
In spite of the government’s latest problems, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the spending budget will at some point be passed.


As the governing administration coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman introduced very last night that he is suspending conversations on the 2023 spending budget. He informed Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the key minister and we decided that for the minute we are postponing the spending plan conversations in order to get arranged. We are freezing the conversations as a accountable federal government, and we will conclusion the summertime session and we will arrange ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition experienced in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the initially looking through of the invoice to elevate the minimum wage to NIS 40 for every hour. “We agreed (to postpone the spending plan discussions) simply because the vote went towards the Committee for Legislative Matters. Most people ought to be liable in what they are undertaking. I am confident that the spending budget will go later and it will be a fantastic spending plan that is not populist.”

The defeat in excess of the minimum amount wage charges was just 1 of a variety of defeats inflicted on the authorities coalition in the Knesset this week. It started with the failure to pass the law regulating the authorized circumstance for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Religious Affairs, thanks to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who left the coalition two months back and voted against the authorities for the initial time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photo: Yossi Zamir
