Top Likud MK Says Party Is Headed Towards Bibi-Led Opposition

By Staff, Agencies

“Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is on its way towards the opposition, Likud whip MK Miki Zohar stated after the faction was defeated in a Knesset vote on the formation of a key committee.

"We understand and we adopt the idea that we are headed in the direction of the opposition," he said during a meeting of the Knesset’s Arrangements Committee.

"Netanyahu will lead the opposition," he said, adding that "we will keep our heads held high."

Earlier in the evening, a key bill proposed to the Arrangements Committee, a key Knesset committee that controls the legislative agenda of the new parliament until a new government is formed, issued by Likud was rejected during a vote at the plenum.

The blocking of the bill essentially wrested control of the Knesset’s Arrangements Committee from Likud and now gives the so-called "change bloc" the power to determine the legislative agenda in the new parliament until a new government is formed.

The vote was won thanks to the support of the party Ra’am [United Arab List] led by MK Mansour Abbas.