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Benyamin Netanyahu announced Monday, October 21, 2019, he is not able to form a government now. It is now his main rival, Benny Gantz, that this task should fall. But this mission promises to be equally difficult for him, and if he too had suffered a failure, Mr. Netanyahu did not give up his ambitions.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Guilhem Delteil
In charge of forming a government by the Israeli president following the parliamentary elections on 17 September , it is the second time in six months that Benyamin Netanyahu has failed.
For the first time in 11 years, another Israeli politician should be appointed to try to form a coalition. This is a major failure for Benyamin Netanyahu . His image as a magician of politics, as indelible Prime Minister, is now stained.
But the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history has not given up staying in power. Over the past few weeks, he has sought to consolidate the right-wing bloc's union around him - be it within his party, the Likud, or allied formations - to prevent some elected officials from joining a Gantz government .
Netanyahu bets on Gantz's failure
Benyamin Netanyahu is banking on the failure of his rival and believes that he will have a better chance of forming a government in a third time, when the threat of a new dissolution of Parliament will be more imminent.
If Benny Gantz is a minority government , he promises to fight him hard and lead his party in the next election. At 70, Benyamin Netanyahu stresses that he does not intend to withdraw. But each passing day brings him closer to a possible indictment that would weaken him a little more.