Yisrael Beytenu leader Liberman said his party would not support the current version of law, Trend reports citing The Jerusalem Post.
The MKs who opposed the “cameras bill” want the election to be “fraudulent and stolen,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, shortly after the proposal was stopped from going to a vote in the Knesset on Monday.
The Knesset Arrangements Committee stopped the Likud-backed bill, which would allow observers to bring cameras to polling stations, but not into voting booths, on Election Day, from going to a first reading Monday. The committee vote came down to 12 in favor and 12 opposed – in the Knesset, a tie is akin to a rejection.
The cameras bill could technically still go to a vote on Wednesday, but it would be too late to pass it as law before the September 17 election.
“There is no reason for those who really want clean elections to oppose the cameras bill that prevents election fraud,” Netanyahu said.