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azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 02:59 PM Jul 2012

Kadima faction votes to quit coalition

End of Kadima-Likud partnership: Members of the Kadima faction voted to quit the coalition on Tuesday. Twenty-four MKs voted in favor of the proposal and three voted against it after party chairman Shaul Mofaz announced his intention to leave the government. The dissenting MKs are Avi Dichter, Otniel Schneller and Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich.

Speaking at a faction meeting in Petah Tikva Mofaz said, "It is with deep regret that I say that there is no choice but to decide to leave the government." Following the vote, Mofaz sent his resignation letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netany

"It wasn't easy to enter it," Mofaz said earlier. "I paid a personal political price but this issue is fundamental, and there is no choice but to leave the coalition. Every concession will harm Kadima's image."

The Kadima faction convened for a dramatic meeting hours after announcing that negotiations with the Likud over an alternative to the Tal Law had failed.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4256736,00.html

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LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
1. That didn't last long
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 05:49 PM
Jul 2012

Wish Clegg's collaboration with Cameron had been as brief!

Will Israel now need to call new elections?

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
2. Yair Lapid is calling for new elections from what I've read
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:23 PM
Jul 2012

Lapid calls on PM to dissolve Knesset, call new elections

Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to dissolve the government and call new elections following the reported failure in talks to reach a compromise on replacing the Tal Law.

"We are ready for elections," Lapid said following news that Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz was expected to pull his party from the coalition.

"The time has come to remove this bad government from power," the Yesh Atid chairman said in a statement.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=277810

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
5. Here's the answer...
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:13 PM
Jul 2012
Poll: Olmert could take on PM in election

A comeback by former prime minister Ehud Olmert would have a huge impact on the political map, according to a Smith Research poll commissioned by The Jerusalem Post following Olmert’s acquittal on the key corruption charges against him on Tuesday. But the former Kadima leader vehemently denied on Thursday he was seeking a return to politics.

Were Olmert to form a new centrist party that included Kadima and Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid, it could win 30 seats, compared to 27 for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud, according to the poll. The new party would take away mandates from Likud and Labor and could potentially form the next government.


http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=277363

This could be why Mofaz and Kadima quit the coalition, who knows?

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
8. well what is being said publicly is that Kadima's leaving the coalition
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 04:14 PM
Jul 2012

is mainly over the Tal Law, but who knows what could happen in an election

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
12. Still, is it actually possible for Olmert to make a comeback after his partial conviction?
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 07:04 PM
Jul 2012

Wouldn't the verdict in the corruption case kind of take him out of the equation? And isn't it asking a lot to expect that Lapid would simply defer to Olmert when the polls have Lapid's party running neck-and-neck with Labor and well ahead of Kadima?

It's seems far more likely that Lapid would get a lot of breakaways from Kadima joining HIS party, and then that party forming an alliance with Labor.

Labor's support is rising and I don't think the voters in Israel are as adamant about keeping the left totally out of power as they were a few year's ago.

(on another note, it wouldn't surprise me to see Ehud Barak and his mini-party take their course to its logical conclusion and simply merge with Likud. It's not as if Barak still disagrees with Bibi about anything, and he seems to be more obsessed with punishing Labor for demanding that he give up the defense ministry than with actually building a new party).

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
3. Israeli Premier Netanyahu's coalition crumbles with Kadima exit
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:56 AM
Jul 2012

JERUSALEM — Israel'smuch-touted ruling grand coalition broke apart Tuesday after the centrist Kadima party quit less than three months after it surprised the nation by joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government.

The fracture, prompted by a dispute over a bill to draft religious students into the military, does not bring down Netanyahu's government, but it probably will trigger early elections.

During a Kadima faction meeting, party leader Shaul Mofaz blamed Netanyahu for the split.

"It was not easy to enter the government," he told members. "I paid a public price for it. But there's no escape from the need to break away."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-kadima-20120718,0,3418318.story

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
13. Kadima would have been wiped out if it stayed in the coalition through 2013
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 07:05 PM
Jul 2012

The polls had its support low enough to reduce it to three mandates(seats).

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
15. I never thought it would last long anyway.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 10:46 AM
Jul 2012

Basically a personality party founded on a particular issue, drifting along after the issue and the personaiity are gone. It was kind of interesting though. I'd like to know how Israelis feel about it now, would they do the Gaza withdrawal again, if given the choice again? I think not, and yet it was necessary, or you have to think Sharon was bamboozled into it. Israeli politics is so fractured you almost have to form a party around an issue enough people believe in to get anything done.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
6. Labor chief calls on Netanyahu to move up elections
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:58 PM
Jul 2012
Opposition head Shelly Yacimovich criticized the Kadima-Likud unity coalition, referring to it as a 'repulsive political circus'; Yisrael Beiteinu to stay in cabinet

Opposition chairperson MK Shelley Yacimovich (Labor) called Wednesday morning for moving up elections, in the wake of Kadima's withdrawal from the unity government.

"I am calling on you, Bibi, let's go to elections – we even have a reasonable date," she said, November 27.

In a press conference held at the Knesset, Yacimovich referred to the failed talks on formulating a legislation alternative to the Tal Law, regarding drafting of ultra-Orthodox men to the IDF.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/labor-chief-calls-on-netanyahu-to-move-up-elections.premium-1.451960

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
10. Kadima party set to split, as members in talks to join Netanyahu government
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:25 PM
Jul 2012

Members of the Kadima party said on Sunday that they would manage to gather a group of seven Knesset members by Monday that would join Netanyahu's government, under the authority of former minister Tzachi Hanegbi. According to the information that is emerging, Hanegbi will most likely be appointed home front defense minister.

Currently, Kadima members estimate that four Knesset members have already commited to taking part in the move. These are: Ya'akov Edri, Otniel Schneller, Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich and Aryeh Bibi, who did not hide their desire in previous weeks to stay in the coalition after Kadima quit.

At the same time, negotiations are under way with another group of Knesset members, in ordet to speed up the move.

One party source said that those involved had "shifted a gear" since the morning in the moves to split the party. The source also said that Edri would leave Kadima and join the Likud party, where he began his political career. Edri said in response that, "I have not decided yet, I am still thinking about it."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/kadima-party-set-to-split-as-members-in-talks-to-join-netanyahu-government-1.452825

 

zellie

(437 posts)
11. Thats why I love Democracies...
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jul 2012

you can support or not support any person or group without fear of being shot or executed in the middle of a street.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
14. while in general I agree
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:24 AM
Jul 2012

I would have to add that it could be sad to see democracies support political suppression in other societies, to the extent that one democracy went so far as to go to the IMF for funds on the behalf of another 'society' to help fund the 'political suppression' that is being perpetrated in that society I'm 'sure you'd agree

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