TV: Anti-Netanyahu coalition seen increasingly likely to secure Knesset majority

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Title : TV: Anti-Netanyahu coalition seen increasingly likely to secure Knesset majority
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The eight-party coalition that aims to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears increasingly likely to secure the necessary majority support in the Knesset, Israel’s two main news stations reported Friday night.

The assessment among all members of the “change bloc,” led by Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, is that the coalition will indeed be sworn in, Channel 12 said, with a wafer-thin 61-59 majority.

Channel 12 said that the MK deemed potentially most problematic, Yamina’s Nir Orbach, on Friday told several people who are trying to persuade him to vote against the coalition: “Don’t place your expectations on me. Unless there is some dramatic change, I intend to enable the establishment of this government, either by actively backing it [in the Knesset vote] or by resigning from the Knesset.”

Were Orbach to resign, the Yamina lawmaker who would take his place is Shirley Pinto, who has said repeatedly that she strongly supports the planned government.

Channel 13 also reported that Orbach will either vote for the government or resign from the Knesset, paving the way for Pinto to take his place and back it.

Orbach was quoted by Channel 13 saying, “I won’t do what Chikli did,” in reference to rebel Yamina MK Avichai Chikli, who pledged several days ago to vote against the government, reducing its support from 62 to 61 MKs.

Chikli told Channel 12 on Friday evening: “I wasn’t able to convince Orbach” to join him in voting against the coalition, “and I’ve stopped working on that.”

Another Yamina MK deemed a potential defector by Netanyahu’s Likud, Idit Silman, announced earlier on Friday that she had taken a final decision to vote in favor of the so-called “change government.”

Both TV channels indicated there were some milder concerns that New Hope’s Ze’ev Elkin — a former Likud minister who quit Netanyahu’s party in December and has castigated his leadership — might not vote for the coalition; Channel 12 said some think Elkin might “disappear” when the vote is held. But the same channel said New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar has said he “knows how to ensure” that all his party members vote in favor.

Since the confidence vote is only likely to be held on June 14, however, and since the coalition is heading to a 61-59 majority, whereby a single defection could doom it, the potential for the picture to change cannot be discounted, in part because the various coalition agreements have not been finalized, and especially given the potential for Israel’s fast-moving political and security reality to change within days, hours or even minutes. READ MORE