While Likud has already claimed victory in this week’s election, getting enough partners on board for a coalition government is no easy task, with early talks indicating several factions want the defense portfolio.
Avigdor Lieberman promised his supporters he’d take the portfolio after the election, and wipe out the entire Gaza Strip. A poor election-day showing doesn’t appear to have changed his mind, and he’s still demanding the spot.
So is fellow hawk Neftali Bennett, who is demanding the spot and also wants Netanyahu to assure him that Palestinian statehood won’t happen during the current coaltiion.
Moshe Kahlon is quite happy to be promised the Finance Ministry portfolio, but also wants one of his party’s MPs to get the defense portfolio, reflecting their strong showing in the vote and warning Netanyahu that their backing is not assured.
Likud wants the current major portfolios to stay in place, meaning Ya’alon would remain DM, Lieberman would remain FM, and Bennett Economics Minister. Finance Ministry is the only major spot changing hands, from Yair Lapid, who is headed to the opposition, to Kahlon.
That’s Likud’s ideal at least, but given the long road to getting a 60 seat majority, expect those plans to change and for several different proposals to be floated before everyone is satisfied.
Look, all these little or bigger political parties feeding from the very same piggy bank, the main idea is to have as much as possible for them while dividing people as much as they can, this is nothing new its been there since 1990 when these piggis found that there is enough of the economy out there for all of them to have and profit from by being a poodle to corporations, meanwhile more of people divided more they can implement their deceptive social politics idea starting with austerities. Israel, is not an exception country, the very same social political idea is running the european nation to the maximality of divisions and poverty since 1990. This is just how and who gets the bigger piggy bank ATM machine.