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The new coalition has collected and submitted the 61 signatures necessary to replace the Knesset speaker. It looks like the opposition isn't waiting to see if Levin will delay their vote; they want to hold it as soon as possible.

https://twitter.com/ishaycoen/status/1400315836196339717

The new speaker-to-be is Yesh Atid's Mickey Levy.

Assuming Lapid has everything in order, expect him to schedule the vote on the new coalition as soon as possible - Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest, so Netanyahu won't have time to attract defectors.

https://twitter.com/NadavElimelech/status/1400316342960594948

Weird things are happening with this document. Some MKs are claiming they've never seen it, much less signed it...

The Joint List has expressed a willingness to sign on to removing the Knesset Speaker, compensating for the MKs who are claiming their signatures were faked.

https://twitter.com/NadavElimelech/status/1400335492659433472

Now Yamina and New Hope are refusing to replace the Knesset speaker if they can't do it without the support of the Joint List, which means the two MKs who withdrew their signatures may end up being decisive after all.

https://twitter.com/YakiAdamker/status/1400371092603215872

Decisive in the sense that they won't be able to replace the Speaker. Which means Lapid won't be able to hold the vote on the government early; Speaker Levin, from the Likud, will want to delay it as much as possible to give Netanyahu the chance to find more defectors.

Of course, if these two MKs are opposed to replacing the speaker, there's a significant chance they're opposed to the coalition too - which means Lapid and Bennett do not actually have 61 and the vote will fail regardless of when they have it.

In other words, this is not over!

Clarification of the signatures situation: Nobody has explicitly accused anybody of forgery. The two MKs are claiming they've never seen the document and are also withdrawing their signatures.

How they can withdraw it and simultaneously claim they never signed it is beyond me...

An interesting and strange dichotomy here: Although the two dissenting Yamina MKs are enough to kneecap the coalition and keep it from forming, they are NOT enough for Netanyahu to offer them a separate deal. For that you need a minimum 1/3 of the faction, or 3 MKs.

The Joint List has officially joined the call to replace the Knesset Speaker, so there are now enough votes.
The question now is whether Yamina and New Hope will agree to move forward on something that they need TJL help to accomplish.

https://twitter.com/zalmanovitz/status/1400432623353217028