Netanyahu's right-wing bloc falls 3 seats short of majority in Israeli election
Source: The Hill
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus right-wing bloc fell three seats short of a parliamentary majority after the nations third election in a year.
Netanyahus Likud Party won a plurality of seats Monday, with 36, while fellow coalition members won 22, for a combined total of 58, three shy of the 61-seat majority, Haaretz reported. The Joint List alliance of Arab parties, meanwhile, had its strongest showing ever winning 15 seats, according to Thursday results.
Meanwhile, ex-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman will recommend Benny Gantz, leader of the centrist Blue and White Party, to form the countrys next government, after declining to make a recommendation and calling for a unity government after the previous election.
The Joint List similarly backing Gantz would put 62 seats in Gantzs corner, Axios reports, likely leading to President Reuven Rivlin allowing him to form a government. The Joint List has said it will consider backing Gantz if he makes "a change truly in the direction of peace and equality."
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/486153-netanyahus-right-wing-bloc-falls-3-votes-short
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(34,195 posts)"Meanwhile, ex-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman will recommend Benny Gantz, leader of the centrist Blue and White Party, to form the countrys next government"
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(45,438 posts)lock him up already and this problem can be closed for good
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(53,956 posts)a majority of the Knesset supports a bill that forbids naming an indicted member to form a government, and limiting prime ministers to two terms.