The opposition parties in the Knesset announced Sunday that they would be boycotting the vote on three contentious bills which the government is attempting to pass this week - the referendum bill, the haredi draft bill and the electoral threshold bill.The opposition parties met at Labor Party headquarters, deciding to take the steps after their demands to hold three-day discussions of each bill in the Knesset were rejected.While the government holds one-day discussions of the bills in the Knesset, the opposition parties plan to hold separate parallel discussions."Despite the fact that this is not a homogenous opposition, we are all united in the struggle to preserve democracy," a joint statement from the opposition parties read. "This is a weak and hysterical coalition in which no one trusts his partners and they try to pass major laws through political brutality."
