Jerusalem: The Israeli parliament issued a national budget for the first time in three years earlier on Thursday, avoiding November deadlines that will trigger new elections.
Marathon last night chose budget bills in the Knesset, Israeli parliament, was a big obstacle for the new government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose narrow coalition had a narrow majority.
The failure to pass the budget on November 14 will overthrow the government appointed to the office in June and triggered the fifth election of almost three years, giving the former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return to power.
Bennett celebrates on Twitter, writes that “After years of chaos – we formed a government, we overcome the Delta variant, and now, thank God, we passed the budget for Israel.” The Knesset began an overnight election session in a series of budget bills, including hundreds of amendments on Wednesday on Wednesday.
The assembly opened with Bennett and Netanyahu gave a speech that attacked each other.
Thursday morning, the Knesset chose 61-59 supporting the Budget Bill 2021, which was first approved by parliament since 2018.
Then on the days of parliamentarians will regroup to choose a budget for 2022.
The coalition of the ruler led by Bennett includes eight parties from crossing the spectrum Politics and have a thin margin of 61 seats in the assembly of 120 members.
Eitan Ginzburg, a member of the coalition parliament, said in an interview with the army radio that by passing a budget of 2021, “We avoid the fifth election, also stabilize the political and economic system.” Israel entered a prolonged political crisis after the election in April 2019, when a right-wing party that had allied with Netanyahu refused to sit in the government while he faced a criminal charges.
The next two years saw four consecutive deadlock elections, and parliament was dissolved in 2020 because it failed to pass through the budget.
The government formed in June includes parties starting from ultranationalists to Islamists with a little more than the desire to avoid the government led by Netanyahu or more elections.