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[The Israeli Knesset held a plenary session and several members submitted a motion to replace the speaker] On November 11, the Israel Integrity Party issued a statement saying that the party had submitted signatures of more than 61 members of the 26th Knesset to the current Speaker Ohana, formally requesting that Ohana himself be removed from the position of speaker, and requesting that a new speaker be voted for at the plenary session of the Knesset. The statement said that as part of the motion, Kahana, a member of parliament from the Integrity Party, has been officially nominated as the new speaker candidate. It is reported that the current Speaker Ohana comes from the Likud group led by Netanyahu. Earlier in the day, leaders of the main parties who opposed Netanyahu's re-election finally agreed to nominate Kahana as the new speaker candidate after several days of negotiations. Ohana previously said that if a majority of parliament members formally request it, he will arrange a plenary session to elect a new speaker. (CCTV News)
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