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Yair Lapid says 'where is the money?' I say, where is Lapid?
-- MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz)
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This is a new low. While we sit in the Knesset, Finance Minister puts up a Facebook status instead of answering questions.
-- MK Shely Yachimovits (Labor)
The Knesset was scheduled today to debate/discuss the planned budget cuts. The Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, did not attend the session. Yachimovitch's comment is after the fact referring to a Facebook status posted by Lapid, seemingly during the Knesset discussion. Lapid wrote about how the announcement of a planned tuition hike for college students was disinformation and he had not made such a decision. Yachimovitch's criticism stands assuming Lapid is updating his own Facebook account and does not have a hired staffer doing it. I assume he has someone hired on the payroll dealing with his social media accounts. If that is correct, he is not playing on Facebook instead of attending an important Knesset session, but it still looks bad, as if he is. Most people might not realize he has someone on staff running his Facebook account.
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If Lapid has hired someone to handle his Facebook page, I strongly recommend he should fire him - the guy did a terrible job recently...
ReplyDeleteI do believe he updates his Facebook page on his own. After all, writing is what his good at (and time will tell if he can be good at running an economy as well).
the facebook is a red herring. the point is that in our system of government, the cabinet answers (or should) to the knesset. he should have come to the special session or at least sent the assistant minister to answer for the government.
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