Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin said he would insist that the election date be reached by consensus of all factions in the parliament and not imposed unprecedentedly by one side.
The Knesset dispersal bill Blue and White wants to pass would drastically cut party funding and impose new limits on paid election propaganda online, including on social media. Blue and White MK Ram Shefa told the House Committee that there is less need to fund political events when people are staying home due to the coronavirus.Despite the pandemic, Israel will hold the elections in one day, but the committee will have to add more polling stations and staff across the country, spread out lines and have an information campaign, the CEC head said. Adding polling stations will cost a minimum of NIS 16,000 per polling station, Ades said, when asking for a higher budget.Earlier, retired Supreme Court judge Ayala Procacia, who heads the state committee on party funding, said that such funding should not be lowered despite the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.She revealed that American election officials learned from the Central Elections Committee of Israel how to have special polling stations for those quarantined for the coronavirus in a meeting on Zoom. Asked about voting by mail, by telephone or by power of attorney, as America does, Ades ruled those options out. But she said she would be open to adding mobile polling stations for coronavirus patients, similar to coronavirus testing trucks."When elections begin is not the time to be revolutionary," she said.
Date for next election to be set on Wednesday
Elections Committee rules out election in less than 90 days.
