| Joint List leader Ayman Odeh vowed to support the bill and ensure it passes. By GIL HOFFMAN OCT20, 2021 JERUSALEM POST
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Wednesday that she would not vote for Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s bill that would prevent an indicted MK from forming a government.
The bill would apply to those indicted for a crime punishable by a three-year sentence. That would include former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for bribery.
“The attorney-general cannot decide who will be prime minister,” Shaked said at a conference
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Joint List head Ayman Odeh responded that his faction could more than make up for Shaked’s opposition.
”Shaked has only one vote and we have six,” Odeh wrote Sa’ar on Twitter, urging him to bring it to a vote next week.
Yamina’s Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana responded to Odeh saying he had six “fingers” for voting by saying that he saw what his hands could do – referring to Odeh shoving MK Itamar Ben-Gvir at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.
Ben-Gvir called the bill shocking and said it violates the premise of innocent until proven guilty.
The bill will not be voted upon until after the passage of the state budget.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Ra’am faction have not announced whether they will support the bill. |