Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly struck a deal with opposition Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to form an emergency national unity government that will keep Netanyahu in charge for 18 months.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday announced that he has called on Benny Gantz to form a government after the Blue and White leader beat out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and received the majority of endorsements for the premiership.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for establishing an emergency unity government with his Likud party’s main challenger to fight coronavirus.
Last week’s election in Israel resembles the Democrat Iowa caucuses given the absence of a clear winner, said Jeremy Saltan.
Blue and White number two MK Yair Lapid on Tuesday said the only way to avoid the “catastrophe” of fourth elections was to form a narrow minority government with the backing of the Arab-majority Joint List, reneging on campaign promises that his party would never rely on support from the Arab factions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted jubilant supporters after the Likud’s decisive come-from-behind win, calling it “a victory against all the odds.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party are on track to win that country’s third successive parliamentary elections, according to the first exit polls that emerged after polls closed at 10:00 p.m. local time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s poll numbers have risen as Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the job of forming a new Israeli government by President Reuven Rivlin, after the opposition rejected any national unity government that allowed Netanyahu to lead it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered opposition leader Benny Gantz a “national unity” government — one in which the two leading parties agree to govern together.
Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on Friday, and he is favored to win the next elections in September. But the Trump administration is concerned that his political future may not be secure.
Israel’s leading opposition party, Blue and White, has hired American political strategist Joel Benenson, who has previously worked for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in its effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Because of Avigdor Liberman’s personal vendetta against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli public has been denied their right to a government.
The New York Times had declared the election a “setback” for Netanyahu, based on exit polls that showed Likud losing by a substantial margin to the opposition,
