Preliminary Reading Voting:
43 MKs voted for: 12 of 13 Yisrael Beitenu MKs, 10 Yesh Atid, 9 Labor, 4 Raam-Taal, 4 Livni, 2 Hadash, 1 Kadima & 1 Meretz
23 MKs voted against: 11 Likud, 7 Bayit Yehudi, 1 UTJ, 1 Kadima, 1 Yesh Atid, 1 Labor, 1 Meretz
9 Abstaining MKs: 3 Shas, 2 UTJ, 2 Labor, 1 Balad, 1 Livni
9 Present but not voting MKs: 5 Shas, 2 UTJ, 2 Labor
36 Not Present MKs (mostly MKs who paired off): 8 Yesh Atid, 7 Likud, 5 Bayit Yehudi, 4 Meretz, 3 Shas, 2 UTJ, 2 Balad, 2 Hadash, 1 Yisrael Beitenu, 1 Labor, 1 Livni
Party Analysis:
Likud: 61% against, 39% not present
Bayit Yehudi: 58% against, 42% not present
Kadima: 50% against, 50% for
Shas: 45% voted not present, 27% abstain, 27% not present
UTJ: 28% abstain, 28% voted not present, 28% not present, 14% against
Meretz: 66% not present, 16% against, 16% for
Labor: 60% for, 13% abstain, 13% voted not present, 6% not present, 6% against
Yesh Atid: 52% for, 42% not present, 5% against
Livni: 66% for, 16% abstain, 16% not present
Yisrael Beitenu: 92% for, 8% not present
Hadash: 50% for, 50% not present
Balad: 66% not present, 33% abstain
Ra’am-Ta’al: 100% for
Item #2:
MK-to-Minister ratio: Likud 2.25:1, Y. Beytenu 2.6:1, Yesh Atid 3.8:1, Bayit Yehudi 4:1;
Will Livni get a second minister position to replace Amir Peretz?
It would be nice if you could say what bill you are talking about.
Otherwise this seems to be quite a useless post…
Or is this the free newspaper bill?
Yes
First of all, where are we now with the bill? Did it pass? Was it sent to committee?
Secondly, why is the Right voting for Democratia (nice Russian word) and against Democracy, that is for the principle that the Left runs the country no matter who wins the election? Not to mention to destroy their only ally?
(If I was there I would have screamed against the bill and then abstained; when it comes to Chareidim they are as anti-Semitic (the Chareidim are coming! was one headline, like “the Indians are coming!”) as the rest of the press.)