Israel's parliament dissolves, sets 5th election in 4 years

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Source: AP

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament voted Thursday to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the fifth time in less than four years.

Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister and architect of the outgoing coalition government, will become the country’s caretaker prime minister just after midnight on Friday. He will be the 14th person to hold that office, taking over from Naftali Bennett, Israel’s shortest serving prime minister.

The government collapsed just over a year after it was formed in a historic move that saw longtime leader Benjamin Netanyahu ousted after 12 years in power by a coalition of ideologically diverse parties, the first to include an Arab faction. The motion to dissolve passed with 92 lawmakers in favor, and none opposing, after days of bickering by coalition and opposition lawmakers over the date of new elections and other last minute legislation.

New elections will be held on November 1.The move brings a formal end to a political experiment in which eight parties from across the Israeli spectrum tried to find common ground after a period of prolonged gridlock in which the country held four elections in two years.

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[brooklynite]

1. AQ coalition of liberals, nationalists and arabs was never going to go together.

[karynnj]

3. Agree,

I had hoped that the provisions that "punished" the party that broke the coalition by giving the PM to the other side might work for awhile. I guess the only thing they agreed on was NO Netanyahu. The scary thing is that if you look at the MK by party, only the Arab parties and Meretz are where most liberals are. Meretz has often been very near the threshold which would give no seats.

If Likud would abandon Netanyahu, they could easily get a right wing/ultra religious coalition. They have moved from liberal/socialist to majority right wing in their short history. Passing the "Nation state" law -- with many claiming it was not inconsistent where their independence declaration that promised equal rights for all -- was eye opening.

[Mosby]

4. Israel is far more progressive than the US.

Likud for example, would be centrists in the US.

Most liberals are in Yesh Atid, blue and white and labor. Meretz is mainly tankies and DSA types.

Their RW parties are nationalists and religious mostly, but not necessarily social conservatives.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Nirvana is what you make it?

[brush]

5. Is Netanyahu in the picture again?