Abutbol is Sitting in Our Seat

Rav Shalom Cohen, spiritual leader of Shas, has instructed Moshe Abutbol, outgoing mayor of Bet Shemesh, not to resign just yet, as he had planned to do. Rather, he should continue working as a city council member at least to lead the negotiations on behalf of all the Haredi parties together to attain the best possible results for potentially joining Aliza Bloch's incoming coalition and getting the most possible for the Haredi community or alternatively to arrange a united Haredi front of all the Haredi parties to block Aliza Blioch from being able to work efficiently.
Avremi Frenkel, Bet Shemesh city councilman from the Shlomei Emunim faction of UTJ, has spoken out today against these instructions. Actualic is reporting that Frenkel said on Kol Berama radio that there is no connection and Abutbol needs to resign. His spot is ours, Frenkel said, and Abutbol is sitting on a mandate that UTJ voters obtained.
All I have to say to Frenkel is that UTJ gave him that seat, and unless there was an explicit deal or arrangement that he would vacate it right after the elections, Abutbol has that seat and is justified to hold on to it as long as he wants. UTJ voters voted UTJ, and Abutbol was brought in to lead UTJ. True, they were being nice to him and saved his skin, so to speak, after his snafu trying to pull a fast one over everyone else, but they gave him the seat and it is his to sit in until he decides to resign from it.
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