The man set to take the place of MK Isaac Herzog, who's leaving the Knesset to serve as the head of the Jewish Agency, in the opposition Labor party left the party a few months in the past and is not a member, Channel 10 information reported Sunday.
Robert Tiviaev, who holds the subsequent spot on the party’s record, resigned his membership half a yr in the past, and was reportedly in talks to hitch the coalition Yisrael Beytenu party, having given up hope of becoming a member of the Knesset on Labor’s ticket.
Asked by Channel 10 whether or not it was acceptable for him to hitch the Knesset in a party that he doesn’t belong to, Tiviaev replied, “Certainly… The party is the platform for everything.”
Tiviaev has expertise in shifting from one party to a different. He was first elected as an MK for the Kadima party in 2009, then in 2012 jumped ship to hitch Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua, the place he remained till he misplaced his seat in 2013. He then went on to hitch Labor however didn't win a seat in the final elections.
Tiviaev, born in Derbent, Dagestan, in what's as we speak Russia, started his political profession as a member of Yisrael Beytenu party, earlier than leaving to hitch Kadima.
Outgoing Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Chairman-elect MK Isaac Herzog following Herzog’s election at the Jewish Agency Board of Governors’ conferences in Jerusalem, June 24, 2018. (Nir Kafri for The Jewish Agency for Israel/courtesy)
Opposition chief Herzog might want to quit his Knesset seat to imagine workplace as the new chief of the Jewish Agency after he was unanimously elected to the place on Sunday.
He is predicted to imagine workplace later this summer time. It is at present unclear who will substitute him as chief of the opposition on August 1.
Labor chief Avi Gabbay is ineligible to serve as opposition chief as a result of he's not at present an MK.