Israel: Gantz and Netanyahu Fail to form Government before Deadline
If the parliament fails to select such a candidate, or if the chosen person could not form a government within 14 days, Israelis will be asked to hit the polls yet again.
If the parliament fails to select such a candidate, or if the chosen person could not form a government within 14 days, Israelis will be asked to hit the polls yet again.
Monday's election was Israel's third in less than a year, after neither leader was able to form a government.
In that ballot, and in the one prior in April, Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party deadlocked with ex-general Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White. Neither managed to muster enough support in the 120-seat Knesset for a stable coalition.
If he fails, centrist Gantz of the Blue and White party will likely be given a chance.
Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is projected nine seats, is expected to be the election's kingmaker.
Netanyahu, in his turn, addressing the nation live on television shortly before the police released their findings around 9 p.m., made clear that he would not step down.
The request of Yesh Atid was rejected, but no ruling on the complaint about the legislation is done yet.
However, Herzog still very firmly says that he will not enter the coalition. Moreover, he has promised to bring down the government by leading a fighting opposition.
Of course, it was very important for Netanyahu to form a coalition, no matter the price he "paid" for it, otherwise he would cease to be the Prime Minister of the country and the President of Israel would ask someone else to try to form the new government.
We also look forward to continuing consultations on a range of regional issues, including international negotiations to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and the importance of pursuing a two-state solution
If he fails to form a coalition, the Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin, would be required to ask another Israeli MP to try to form a government.
"Unfortunately everything we wanted in coalition agreements and also that which we didn't see brought me to the conclusion that the future will not be a government that serves national interests, but one that serves opportunists," Lieberman on the occasion Lieberman.
After winning the elections, at the same time showing its discontent towards the Iranian nuclear deal during the election campaign, as well as receiving much criticism for his announcements, Netanyahu started bringing the situation into balance.
Netanyahu will be given 28 days to form the government.
The UK congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu for winning the parliamentary elections.
The debate on Israeli violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories was boycotted not only by Israel, but by the US as well.
He also urged the Prime Minister to restart transferring the tax revenue, frozen by Israel, to the Palestinian Authorities.
I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that, circumstances have to change.
After achieving the desired outcome it is difficult to say whether Netanyahu will remain faithful to his proposed theses about Israeli-Palestinian conflict which he made during the pre-election period, particularly abandoning the idea of creating a Palestinian state, thus refuting further negotiations or not.
This article aims at conducting post-election comparative analysis of the main ideologies of the above mentioned three leading parties to identify what would be possible scenarios of further developments in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution process if the winner of the election was not Likud party but either of the two remaining major parties.
The tense competition in Israel between the leaders of the Likud party and the Zionist Union continue.
Speaking about the main problems the Israeli citizens now face, the respondents said that the first and the foremost problem that Israel now faces, is the conflict with Palestine. Among the respondents there was also a representative of the Armenian community in Israel.
The party calls for the creation of the Palestinian state, as the Jerusalem Post reports, in the pre-1967 lines with East Jerusalem as the capital of the state.
Iran’s a very aggressive power without nuclear weapons. It’s rampaging throughout the Middle East and conducting a worldwide campaign of terror. So once they’re armed with nuclear weapons, the level of their conventional aggression would grow
The two main rivals are the largest parties – Likud, headed by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the opposition Zionist Union, led by Isaac Herzog.
According to analytics soft-spoken and witty representatives of left-wing party focused on the economy and consequently benefitted from voters’ weariness with Netanyahu’s obsession with security.
The government (cabinet of ministers) that is responsible for the internal and external affairs of the country is the executive authority of the state. The prime minister appoints members of the Cabinet based on the distribution of votes of the political parties during the elections.
As for the question of refugees, in the platform the Zionist Union expressing its support for the creation of two state, finds the solution of the Palestinian refugees only in the Palestinian state, leaving the question of the rights of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries to be addressed in a final-status agreement.
In general, according to the Israeli law, voting takes place only on the Israeli soil, but exception are made for those Israeli citizens who are in an official business abroad.
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