The House Committee, chaired by MK Ofir Katz (Likud), convened on Monday and approved the request of MK Pnina Tameno Shete (National Unity Party), faction chair of the National Unity Party, to change the parliamentary group’s name, under Article 10(a)(2) of the Knesset Rules of Procedure, to “Blue and White—National Unity Party.”
MK Tameno Shete: “I am submitting the request in keeping with the spirit of the original party, the Blue and White parliamentary group. It is for good reason that we reserved this name with the Registrar of Political Parties. Blue and White is a worldview without divisiveness and without pettiness, and today’s name change is not just cosmetic or semantic—it is part of a worldview that expresses Israeliness.”
MK Tameno Shete said further, “Blue and White is a home for all Israelis—on the right, center and left. It is our aspiration—and we have proved this time after time in the party, and here in the Knesset—that we place the good of Israel above all. [We believe] that the State of Israel needs healing and not fueling discord, consensus and not disagreements, certainly now more than ever. We believe that leadership should be unifying, and we will do everything to form a broad, consensus-based government after the elections.”
The request was approved without opposing votes.
