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Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay may soon be separating from his faction if he does not take immediate steps to help the party win the next elections, party MPs said. The Jerusalem Post Thursday.
The deputies plan to separate from the faction in order to send a message to Gabbay telling him that he has not made enough efforts to make the Zionist Union an alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Some members are ready to leave," said a deputy. "There has to be a boom for anything to really start, there must be an awakening."
The Zionist Union deputy, Yossi Yona, said that if the deputies parted with the party, it would act of an act aimed at "preserving the integrity of the party, not at leave, "adding that" the main motivation is renovation ".
In a first act of rebellion against Gabbay, four deputies signed a petition that would force a labor convention to vote in favor of the cancellation of four reserved seats on the next Knesset list reserved for the Labor Party by Gabbay to choose his own candidates. Deputies Yona, Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Eitan Cabel and Nachman Shai signed it, as well as 400 of the 700 members of the central labor committee required to force the convention.
"It's a party with roots that should allow its people to participate in primaries," Yona said. "All slot slots significantly reduce the importance of primaries." Gabbay admitted that he would have a list of MPs to eliminate.
Yona pointed out that the proposal included a clause that would allow Gabbay to give reserved seats if he brings "respected public figures" to the party, such as former IDF leaders, Benny Gantz or Moshe Ya'alon. But Yona, one of Gabbay's early supporters when he went to Labor leadership, expressed doubts that he could recruit the people needed to help the party to win elections.
"I committed myself and my people to their campaign," Yona said. "Now, my zeal is dropping dramatically, we need someone to lead us into the rushing waters."
Separated from the group of Zionist Union deputies who rebel against Gabbay for the purpose of strengthening the party, the Zionist Union also deals with rebel MP Robert Tivaev, who attempted to leave the party on Wednesday to accept an offer to join Coalition. Tivaev would have been offered the vacant portfolio of immigrants by absorption if he would join the narrow coalition of 61 deputies.
"I am absolutely not the only one to want to separate from the Labor Party," Tivaev told military radio on Thursday. "There are many more like me."
Gabbay rejected Tivaev's request to leave the party but stay in the Knesset.
"We will not allow the seats of the voters of our party to be sold," a Labor spokesman said Thursday.
Gabbay's rejection comes one day after the faction suspended Tivaev from proposing bills and participating in committees for a month, but he can still vote in plenary. He was punished for refusing to participate in the plenary badembly and to vote when the bill by Iraqi MP Itzik Shmuly, of the Zionist Union, provided for national insurance allowances for the seniors are equal to the minimum wage. The Knesset rejected the bill by a vote.
Tivaev first claimed that he had an important meeting, but it was later discovered that he had been paired with the Minister of Social Equality, Gila Gamliel, to make up for it. his absence, despite a strict rule of non-twinning in the opposition. He admitted to the radio that he had let Shmuly's bill fail, because he was furious with the opposition bad, Yoel Hbadon, who had shouted after him. 39, to have insulted.
The rebel MP accused Hbadon of being a "hypocrite" and an "arsonist" after being punished. In the light of the majority of a coalition seat, Tivaev said: "Every vote is important, and Hbadon's childish gesture will come back to him like a boomerang, because he lost a vote for a month."
Hbadon said Thursday that the "suspension of Tivaev did not take away his right to vote.So he returns to vote with us, the sanctions will be removed.If he continues to rebel, they will get worse."
Tivaev said that after his vote, he received text messages from union activists telling him to "go back to Russia".
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