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Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's rival, Benny Gantz, announced on Wednesday, November 20, the Israeli president is unable to form a unity government. Israel is getting closer to new parliamentary elections.
Benny Gantz said he raised " every stone " to try to form a national unity government after the failure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . In vain. While the law gave him until Wednesday 23:59 to get there, he finally threw in the towel. " Blue-white party leader Benny Gantz spoke with President Reuven Rivlin to tell him he was unable to form a government, " said his political party.
The parliamentary elections in September failed to clearly separate outgoing Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz. None had the necessary support, with their respective allies, to claim a parliamentary majority.
President Reuven Rivlin initially mandated Benyamin Netanyahu, who has been in power since 2009, to form a government. But, at the head of a right-wing religious bloc of 54 deputies, Benjamin Netanyahu failed to win enough votes to reach the majority threshold in parliament (61). The president had turned to Benny Gantz , facing a mission that some considered impossible, to avoid a third election in less than a year.
But Benny Gantz failed to convince Avigdor Lieberman - leader of a non-aligned party, Israel Beitenou - to join him in a coalition or Benyamin Netanyahu to share power together in a rotating system. " I ran into a wall made up of losers (elections) who did everything to prevent Israeli citizens from benefiting from a government under my leadership, " said the leader of the Blue White party at a meeting. press conference in Tel Aviv.
" Netanyahu has privileged his personal interests (...) and must remember that we are still in a democracy and that the majority of the people voted for a policy different from his own, " he added. " The people can not be hostage to an extremist minority ," said the former soldier who sought to form a government of "liberal" union.
In the face of the stalemate, President Rivlin can now give Knesset MPs, the Israeli parliament, three weeks to propose names of elected officials likely to succeed where the two great party leaders have failed. If, at the end of this possible new deadline, no political figure succeeds in imposing himself at the head of the government, Israel will return to the polls for the third time in less than a year.
(With AFP)