Liberman postpones budget discussions as coalition totters
Despite the government’s recent challenges, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the funds will finally be handed.


As the federal government coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman announced past evening that he is suspending discussions on the 2023 finances. He instructed Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the primary minister and we decided that for the minute we are postponing the finances conversations in order to get structured. We are freezing the conversations as a responsible government, and we will conclude the summer session and we will organize ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition experienced in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the initial reading through of the bill to elevate the minimal wage to NIS 40 per hour. “We agreed (to postpone the finances discussions) mainly because the vote went from the Committee for Legislative Matters. Every person should be dependable in what they are executing. I am positive that the spending budget will pass afterwards and it will be a excellent spending plan that is not populist.”

The defeat around the minimal wage bills was just a person of a variety of defeats inflicted on the authorities coalition in the Knesset this week. It commenced with the failure to go the regulation regulating the lawful circumstance for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and continued with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Spiritual Affairs, because of to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who remaining the coalition two months in the past and voted from the governing administration for the 1st time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photo: Yossi Zamir
