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Pensioners submit demands to PM: More funding, deputy minister post By Mazal Mualem Tags: Israel The Pensioners' Party does not appear to be heading for a split right now, and Monday the party presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with its terms for staying in his coalition. The essence of the demands revolves around more funding for pensioners, while party chairman Rafi Eitan is also asking that his party receive a deputy minister's post in order to prevent a future split in its ranks. The party's demands include separating the National Insurance Institute from the Finance Ministry, linking the stipend to pensioners with the minimum wage, canceling fees for providence funds, equating the stipends of widowers and widows, and canceling fees for medication for those who cannot afford it. Olmert promised to examine their requests. Advertisement After the meeting, MK Yitzhak Galanti, the party faction chairman, said he had told the prime minister that "unless our demands are met by the start of the summer session, we will have to reconsider our future in the coalition. We will behave according to the results of your actions." All seven party MKs attended the meeting with Olmert. MK Moshe Sharoni, who had led an effort to split from the party, said after the meeting that "I am satisfied." Last week the party was reportedly on the verge of a split, with maverick MKs forming a new faction with the backing of tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak, with whom Sharoni had held talks. The move stalled because MK Elhanan Glazer refused to join Sharoni and MK Sara Marom Shalev, leaving them with less than the required third of an existing party needed for parliamentary funding as a separate faction. Nonetheless, the instability in the junior coalition partner was a matter of concern for the prime minister, and his aides initiated a series of meetings whose purpose was to stabilize the situation. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Never forget Peres, at Warsaw uprising memorial: Israel will avenge Holocaust through peace. Return to Haifa Provocative new play evokes sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians   1.   THAT`S THE WAY TO DO IT!!!! 11:48  |  Robert 15/04/08

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