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NEWS
Rabbi Gafni's Proposed Amendment Passes Preliminary
Reading
by Eliezer Rauchberger
The Knesset plenum approved, in a preliminary reading, a law
proposed by MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni to permit two parties united
under a single Knesset list to divide the party funding
evenly even if one party receives more mandates than the
other.
Forty-four MKs supported the proposed law, one opposed it and
one abstained. The government did not voice a stance because
it avoids involvement in matters related to Knesset
elections. The coalition supported the proposal because it is
merely a technical matter.
According to the existing law, when two parties unite to run
as a single Knesset party funding gets divided according to
the number of mandates each party receives.
UTJ is supposed to be an alliance of equals between Degel
Hatorah and Agudas Yisroel, but with an odd number of MKs, it
is hard to split the money properly. If passed, this
amendment would make it easier.
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