Liberman postpones budget discussions as coalition totters
Irrespective of the government’s latest problems, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the funds will ultimately be passed.


As the government coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman declared very last evening that he is postponing discussions on the 2023 spending budget. He explained to Channel 12 News, “I spoke with the primary minister and we made a decision that for the minute we are postponing the budget discussions in purchase to get arranged. We are freezing the conversations as a liable federal government, and we will conclude the summertime session and we will organize ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition experienced in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the 1st reading of the bill to elevate the least wage to NIS 40 for each hour. “We agreed (to postpone the budget discussions) due to the fact the vote went in opposition to the Committee for Legislative Matters. Every person will have to be liable in what they are carrying out. I am guaranteed that the finances will move afterwards and it will be a superior funds that is not populist.”

The defeat in excess of the minimum amount wage bills was just 1 of a amount of defeats inflicted on the governing administration coalition in the Knesset this week. It commenced with the failure to pass the legislation regulating the legal scenario for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Religious Affairs, due to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who still left the coalition two months in the past and voted in opposition to the government for the very first time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photograph: Yossi Zamir