Moshe Kahlon
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Kahlon demands Israel Land Administration portfolio
Kulanu chairman says faction will not join coalition after March elections unless they are allowed to dismantle authority in charge of public lands.
Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon set terms on Monday for entering the governing coalition after the elections in March – "if we are not given the responsibility over the Israel Land Administration, we will not participate in the government."
At a Ben Gurion University conference in Be'er Sheva on Monday evening, Kahlon said, "Reform against the weak is easy; reform against the strong is the difficult problem. Reforms are not manifested by writing updates on Facebook or interviewing well on television. Reforms are manifested in acts, not in speeches."
Kahlon insisted: "In the end, we have to fight the monopolists. The monopolists are strong – they have a lot of money – and it is not easy, at all."
Kulanu Chairman Kahlon (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
The former welfare and communications minister added: "We will present a clear plan to break-up the monopolists utilizing efficiency measures and by protecting the workers. Don't let them fool you – streamlining is not downsizing, but the opening of new manufacturing lines. Such a process is good for the factory, for the workers, and for the 8 million citizens of the State of Israel."
The Kulunau chairman said his faction had an organized plan to dismantle the Israel Land Administration. "I say it here – I am going to dismantle the Israel Land Administration. If we do not receive the Israel Land Administation portfolio, we will not enter the government," he declared.
Earlier on Monday, at a marketing association convention in Tel Aviv, the former Likud minister said that "the government is at fault for the high costs of housing and the rise in the cost of living. The prime minister and the finance minister argued from the first day of the new government and the public interest was at the bottom of their priority list."
