Israel: centrist Yair Lapid set to form anti-Netanyahu majority
Centrist Yair Lapid is set to form a new government that will exclude Benjamin Netanyahu from power.
AP - Oded Balilty
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Is the Israeli opposition on the way to forming, for the first time in twelve years, a government without Benjamin Netanyahu?
It is currently Yair Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, who is in charge of trying to constitute a coalition and he has just received the support of Naftali Bennett, the leader of the religious nationalist formation Yamina.
Support that could prove decisive.
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With our special correspondent in Jerusalem,
Guilhem Delteil
From now on, the Israeli political class is divided into two categories.
Stronger than the divide between right and left, there is the separation between those who support Benjamin Netanyahu and those who do not want to participate in a government he would lead.
Until now, Naftali Bennett said he was looking for a right-wing government, detached from questions of people.
But the leader of the religious nationalist right was isolated on this line.
And this Sunday, he felt that it is time to state that
Benyamin Netanyahu
cannot form a right-wing government.
On the basis of this observation, he intends to form a government with the centrist Yair Lapid, even if it means withdrawing from a recent promise: that of not joining a government that would be supported by the Islamist party which had expressed its opposition to the government. military intervention in the Gaza Strip.
This deal should allow centrist leader Yair Lapid to secure a majority in the Knesset, Parliament.
Seven of Yamina's eight MPs appear ready to lend their support.
With the support of the left, another formation of the center, another right-wing party and that of the Islamist party, Yair Lapid would have the support of 61 deputies, the absolute majority.
But by virtue of this compromise, the two men would succeed each other as head of government and it was
Naftali Bennett
who would be the first to occupy the post of Prime Minister.
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